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Schneider, Barbara
- John A. Hannah Distinguished University Professor
- Michigan State University
- College of Education, Department of Sociology
- United States
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Barbara Schneider is currently a John A. Hannah Distinguished University Professor in the College of Education and Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Dr. Schneider currently holds research appointments at the University of Chicago and NORC, where she is Principal Investigator of the Data Research and Development Center (DRDC) and Co-Director of the Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work at the University of Chicago. She uses a sociological lens to understand societal conditions and interpersonal interactions that create norms and values that enhance human and social capital. Her research focuses on how the social contexts of schools and families influence the academic and social well being of adolescents as they move into adulthood. Professor Schneider has published 11 books and over 100 articles and reports on family, social context of schooling, and sociology of knowledge. Professor Schneider is currently conducting a new random assignment project, TEACH Research that is designed to improve adolescents’ transition to college. She serves on a number of advisory boards, including the AERA Grants Board, and was selected by the American Sociological Association as the new editor of Sociology of Education.
Select Publications
- Schneider, B. and Waite, L. Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Schneider, B. and Hedges, L.V. The Social Organization of Schooling. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.
- Schneider, B. and Stevenson, D. The Ambitious Generation: American Teenagers Motivated but Directionless. New Haven, CT,Yale University Press, April, 1999.
Awards: Selected as an outstanding book by University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries
- Csikszentmihalyi, M. and Schneider, B. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work. New York, NY: Basic Books, May 2000.
- Bryk, A.S. and Schneider, B. Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002
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Aligning Ambition for Postsecondary Transition in East Asia
How the social contexts of schools and families influence the academic and social well being of adolescents as they move into adulthood, is the topic of this study. I plan to replicate the work I’ve done on adolescent career development (see the Ambitious Generation and Becoming Adult) into a major longitudinal study in East Asia. I have written widely on the interrelationship between primary, secondary, and higher education with a specific focus on academic course taking, extra curricular participation, work experiences, and family relationships that promote access to post secondary education. With my East Asian colleagues, we will explore the conditions influencing academic ambitions in some students but not in others and what these influenced ambitions have on later educational attainment and occupational success. This study will involve 12 high schools in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that are all different in terms of entry and exit higher education statistics. Students, parents, teachers, and administrators will be surveyed with a set of instruments modified from my earlier work. The students will be followed for a five-year period.
As exemplified in the U.S., the demand for higher education has rapidly expanded in South Korea and Taiwan, whereas postsecondary enrollment in Hong Kong has also increased but not at the same rates as the other two countries. By replicating the design components from my earlier work in the U.S. and East Asia, I aim to compare and contrast how college ambition at the K-12 level, influences postsecondary attendance on a cross-national level. Comparing college matriculation rates and educational and occupational attainment within and across South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, I expect to identify common individual and institutional factors that enhance college access and the employment success of economically and socially disadvantaged populations across nation states. |
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