Educational Aspirations, Expectations, and Realities for Middle-Income Families
Educational Aspirations, Expectations, and Realities for Middle-Income Families
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中等收入家庭的教育愿望、期望和现实
DOI：
10.1177/0192513x13479334
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
F. Furstenberg
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作者：
Laura Napolitano;S. Pacholok;F. Furstenberg
尽管大多数美国人都认为高等教育是通往未来经济保障的最明确途径，但许多家庭在这一过程中很难攒钱帮助他们的孩子。这篇文章的重点是中等收入家庭的斗争，因为他们试图谈判他们的日常财务现实与他们的愿望，他们的孩子的中学后教育。特别是，本文探讨了这些中等收入家庭对子女的高教育期望与日常经济拮据之间的不协调。我们这样做，通过分析深入采访31个中等收入家庭生活在大费城地区。在我们的样本中，中等收入的父母敏锐地意识到大学对他们孩子向上流动的重要性，他们理想地希望支持他们的孩子追求这一目标。然而，他们目前的经济不安全，缺乏政府支持，以及大学费用的上涨，使得为这个梦想做准备变得越来越困难。
Although most Americans agree that postsecondary education is the clearest path to later financial security, many families have trouble saving money to help their children in this process. This article focuses on the struggles of middle-income families as they attempt to negotiate their daily financial realities with their aspirations for their children’s postsecondary education. In particular, the article examines the discord between the high educational aspirations these middle-income families have for their children and their daily financial constraints. We do so by analyzing in-depth interviews with 31 middle-income families living in the greater Philadelphia area. The middle-income parents in our sample are acutely aware of the importance of college for their children’s upward mobility, and they ideally would like to support their children in this pursuit. However, their current financial insecurity, their lack of government support, and the rising costs of college make preparing for this dream increasingly difficult.