How Parents Think About the Education of Their Sons and Daughters: An Examination of Kurdish Immigrant Parents In the United States
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin14280704232021-08-03T06:29:47Z How Parents Think About the Education of Their Sons and Daughters: An Examination of Kurdish Immigrant Parents In the United States Salih, Sangar Y. Educational Sociology Kurd education parental investment ABSTRACTThe study seeks to learn how Kurds who currently live in the United States think about and manage their children’s education. Of particular interest is the ways in which the gender of their children might influence how parents engage with their children’s education. Based on 18 semi-structured interviews with Kurdish parents who live in Nashville, Tennessee, the study revealed that Kurds value education, which is not surprising given Kurd’s traditional support for education. But the parents feel more responsible for and take a much more proactive role in their children’s education than is typical of Kurds living in Kurdistan. The interviews suggest this is so because the parents are not only concerned with securing and education for their children but also making sure their children adopt a Kurdish identity. That is, parental investment in their children’s education is at least in part related to concerns for their children’s culture and national identity. Although parents perceive no direct discrimination from the Americans they live among, their preoccupation with the issue and the high bar they set for evidence of discrimination nonetheless suggests that they are well aware of the risks. The study also found that gender plays a role in parental investment, albeit not in a straightforward way. That is, even though parents support the education of both their sons and daughters, they are nonetheless guided by deep seated assumptions that, once they grow up, their sons and daughters will live very different lives. More, specifically, the parents operated on a taken-for-granted assumption that their daughters would live more circumscribed lives than their sons and hence needed a somewhat different investment during childhood. 2015-07-07 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428070423 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428070423 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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How Parents Think About the Education of Their Sons and Daughters: An Examination of Kurdish Immigrant Parents In the United States |
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