Working families’ engagement in children’s activities : Views from Italian and American families
Haute École Pédagogique BEJUNE
- Izquierdo, Carolina UCLA, United States
- Kremer-Sadlik, Tamara ORCID UCLA, United States
- Fatigante, Marilena ORCID Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Arcidiacono, Francesco ORCID Haute École Pédagogique BEJUNE
- Gutiérrez, Kris UCLA, United States
- Pontecorvo, Clotilde ORCID Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Los Angeles : UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives of Families, 2006
English
In the United States and Italy there has been an increase in children's after school activities, also called extra-curricular activities. Research in the U.S. has shown that middle class parents often view such activities as promoting the development of skills and traits that help ensure both well-being and future educational and personal success for their children. In this paper, we compare children’s involvement in after-school activities a in the U.S. and Italy focusing on 1) the nature and amount of extra-curricular activity families organize for their children; and 2) the meanings parents attribute to their children’s engagement in activity. We find that U.S. and Italian children spend similar amount of time on similar activities after school and that their parents share the views that these activities socialize their children's to important values and traits. Finally, we propose that these similarities are a manifestation of an increasingly shared middle-class ideologies and views on childhood in the two cultural contexts.
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