East Asian Mothers’ attitudes towards their children’s education in England: dialectics of East Asian and English education
Hyun-Joo LimORCID Icon
Received 11 Aug 2021, Accepted 06 May 2022, Published online: 17 May 2022
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ABSTRACT
This study explores how middle-class migrant East Asian mothers approach their children’s education in England, where educational culture is perceived to be considerably different from East Asia. Based on dichotomous perceptions about East Asian and English education cultures, dialectical perspectives were used to analyse the life history interview data, particularly four dialectical frameworks developed by [Baxter, L.A. (1990).
Dialectical contradictions in relationship development. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 7, 69–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407590071004]: selection, separation, neutralization, and reframing. In order to release tensions arising from the two-perceived different educational systems these mothers used different dialectical strategies. The paper argues that East Asian mothers’ behaviour towards their children’s education cannot be categorized using a uniform cultural framework and a diasporic space provides multiple possibilities for exercising divergent approaches for them.
KEYWORDS: Confucianismdialectical frameworksdiasporic spacesEast Asian and English educationmothering
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Motherhood experiences of East Asian women in Britain
Hyun-Joo Lim, Bournemouth University
Women’s experiences of gendered lives vary because gender intersects with other socialdivisions, such as ethnicity. As such, motherhood is culturally specific and women fromdifferent national/ethnic backgrounds hold different beliefs around ‘good’ mothering andexercise heterogeneous practices of mothering.
Built on this, this chapter aims to enhance ourunderstanding of motherhood by examining the stories of first generation East Asian(Chinese, Korean and Japanese) women living in Britain.
The research is founded upon afeminist approach that seeks to illuminate the experiences of being a woman in a genderdivided society.
Consistent with this, life history interviews were used with 30 East Asian mothers with children under the age of 11 (10 Chinese, 10 Korean and 10 Japanese).
The data was analysed using an intersectional framework, which consists of seven categories outlinedin the section below
(2) (PDF) Motherhood experiences of East Asian women in Britain.
Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335519546_Motherhood_experiences_of_East_Asian_women_in_Britain [accessed Jun 08 2022].
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영국의 동아시아 어머니:
An Intersectional Exploration of Motherhood and Employment
(Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)
About the Author
Hyun-Joo Lim is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Bournemouth University, UK.
제품 세부 정보
출판사 : Palgrave Macmillan; 제1st ed. 2018판 (23 4월 2018)
언어 : English
Hardcover : 271 페이지
1st ed. 2018 에디션
Hyun-Joo Lim (Author)
How do Chinese, Japanese and Korean mothers in Britain make sense of their motherhood and employment? What are the intersecting factors that shape these women’s identities, experiences and stories? Contributing further to the continuing discourse and development of intersectionality, this book examines East Asian migrant women’s stories of motherhood, employment and gender relations by deploying interlocking categories that go beyond the meta axes of race, gender and class, including factors such as husbands’ ethnicities and the locality of their settlement. Through this, Lim argues for more detailed and context specific analytical categories of intersectionality, enabling a more nuanced understanding of migrant women’s stories and identities.
East Asian Mothers in Britain will appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines and with an interest in identity, gender, ethnicity, class, migration and intersectionality.
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Hyun-Joo Lim (Author)
How do Chinese, Japanese and Korean mothers in Britain make sense of their motherhood and employment? What are the intersecting factors that shape these women’s identities, experiences and stories? Contributing further to the continuing discourse and development of intersectionality, this book examines East Asian migrant women’s stories of motherhood, employment and gender relations by deploying interlocking categories that go beyond the meta axes of race, gender and class, including factors such as husbands’ ethnicities and the locality of their settlement. Through this, Lim argues for more detailed and context specific analytical categories of intersectionality, enabling a more nuanced understanding of migrant women’s stories and identities.
East Asian Mothers in Britain will appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines and with an interest in identity, gender, ethnicity, class, migration and intersectionality.
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About the Author
Hyun-Joo Lim is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Bournemouth University, UK.
제품 세부 정보
출판사 : Palgrave Macmillan; 제1st ed. 2018판 (23 4월 2018)
언어 : English
Hardcover : 271 페이지
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