Parental Decision-Making Factors for School Choice: A South African Middle Class Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Blake, Beverley Shannon; Mestry, Raj
Titel	Parental Decision-Making Factors for School Choice: A South African Middle Class Perspective
Quelle	In: Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 48 (2020) 6, S.1046-1062 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mestry, Raj)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-1432
DOI	10.1177/1741143219880326
Schlagwörter	Parent Attitudes; Parent Participation; School Choice; Middle Class; Urban Schools; Educational Quality; Educational Trends; Decision Making; Foreign Countries; Elementary Secondary Education; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elternverhalten; Elternmitwirkung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Mittelschicht; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungsentwicklung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Ausland; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The crisis in the quality of South African education is evident in a growing perception among South Africans that public schooling will not be able to enhance the educational outcomes and future of their children. This has resulted in a flight trend of learners across all types of primary and secondary education. Historically (pre-1994), South African parents were not actively involved in making choices regarding the schools their children would attend. Democracy opened the door to this possibility and parents are increasingly formulating their own ideas and preferences of what an ideal school should be and offer their children. In eliciting an understanding of this new trend this study aimed to develop a base of knowledge regarding the factors influencing the school choice decision in the South African context as perceived by middle class parents. To this end, a quantitative study utilizing questionnaires was used to establish parental perceptions regarding those aspects they valued, feared, desired, considered and followed in making the best possible school-choice decision for their children's future. The results of the research point to a plethora of factors that drive decision-making emphasising agreement with international literature but unique and complicated in nature as often the decisions parents make in South Africa stem from consequences of apartheid policies and as such need to be understood in this specific context. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01