Expanding Concepts of "Family Contribution": Working-Class Parenting Influences on Youth Achievement Orientation (Poster 38)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session One
  In Poster Session: Community-Based Approaches to Family, School, Community Partnerships

Abstract

Youth education and workforce literature credits social and cultural capital from middle-class upbringings as conducive to achievement. In this research article, we investigate how minoritized students from low-income homes describe their first experiences in summer internships and their earliest memories related to work. Our student participants, twenty-five Bronx high school seniors, largely cite the work ethic of family members and guardians who held working-class jobs as critical in their own motivational development. Our findings indicate that underrepresented youth receive positive benefits related to success from home, through lessons and examples, and subsequent development of social and cultural capital, which can lead to eventual academic success and occupational identity.

Authors

• Anindya Kundu, Florida International University
  Presenting Author

• Yimeng Liu, Florida International University
  Presenting Author

• June Ahn, University of California - Irvine
  Non-Presenting Author