Knowledge about family and school contributions in academic
achievement:The context of schooling and social representations in India
Abstract
The present paper critically examined the available research on role of
family and school contribution in academic achievement and explored
their social representations. People adaptation with the prevalent
notions and thinking beyond the boundary of common sense is required to
explain multidimensional picture of any attribute. Previous research
applied social representation theory to understand educability (Raty &
Snellman, 1998), intelligence (Miguel, Valentim, & Carugati, 2010),
academic achievement and failure (Sinha & Mishra, 2015), and
teachership (Martikainen, 2019). This paper showed a polysemic
understanding of family and school contribution where roles and identity
matters.