"The Best School for My Child?" Positions, Dispositions and Inequalities in School Choice in the City of Barcelona

Autor/inn/en	Alegre, Miquel Angel; Benito, Ricard
Titel	"The Best School for My Child?" Positions, Dispositions and Inequalities in School Choice in the City of Barcelona
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 33 (2012) 6, S.849-871 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2012.686896
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Foreign Countries; Social Structure; Educational Needs; Discourse Analysis; Surveys; Interviews; Social Differences; Equal Education; Preschool Children; Parent Attitudes; Classification; Questionnaires; Spain (Barcelona) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Ausland; Sozialstruktur; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Diskursanalyse; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Sozialer Unterschied; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Elternverhalten; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Fragebogen
Abstract	This article deals with the discourses and practices employed by families involved in school choice processes in the city of Barcelona (Spain). It draws upon a study conducted by the authors in 2008/09, and it is based on surveys completed by a representative sample made up of 3245 families, as well as 60 in-depth interviews with families with children at the age of commencing universal pre-primary education (three years old). Firstly, the article focuses on the types of concerns and pressures that families experience when choosing a school for their child. Secondly, we analyse the level and type of knowledge that parents have at their disposal about the field of school choice, as well as how they use and benefit from available information channels. Finally, we identify three unequal positions in which families find themselves when negotiating the field of school choice: "maximising", "guaranteeing" and "displaced". These positions are, in turn, directly related to families' locations in the social structure, which are also unequal. (Contains 3 notes, 4 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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