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"I'm just there to ease the burden" : the parent support adviser role in English schools and the question of emotional labour
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Cullen, Stephen Michael, Cullen, Mairi Ann and Lindsay, Geoff (2013) "I'm just there to ease the burden" : the parent support adviser role in English schools and the question of emotional labour. British Educational Research Journal, Volume 39 (Number 2). pp. 302-319. doi:10.1080/01411926.2011.640393 ISSN 0141-1926.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01411926.2011.640393
Abstract
In 2005, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) announced a £40 million investment in a new school support worker role, the Parent Support Adviser (PSA), for 20 English Local Authorities (LAs). A pilot project ran from 2006-08, and resulted in the establishment of 717 PSAs in 1,167 schools. The national evaluation of the project forms the evidential basis of this paper, with interviews conducted with 69 PSAs, 85 PSA line managers, and 105 parents, and a data base recording casework with nearly 21,000 parents. This paper focuses on the nature of the PSA role as the first centrally funded parent support role in English schools. The theoretical framework provided by the concept of ‘emotional labour’, and the development of the concept represented by the 4Ps typology, provides the conceptual structure. This paper argues that although the characteristics of the PSA role appear to place it within the category of work requiring emotional labour, PSAs, and parents, regard that aspect of the role in a positive light. For the PSAs, there was little evidence that emotional labour necessary for the role of PSA led to dissonance between role and worker, or alienation from the product of PSA labour.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute of Education ( -2013) |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | School management and organization -- Great Britain, Education -- Parent participation -- Great Britain, Parent-teacher relationships -- Great Britain | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Educational Research Journal | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0141-1926 | ||||
Official Date: | April 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 39 | ||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 302-319 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01411926.2011.640393 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 December 2015 |
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