From Catchment Areas to Parental Choice. Education Policy Reforms and Their Effects on School Segregation.

Autor/in	Ramos Lobato, Isabel
Titel	From Catchment Areas to Parental Choice. Education Policy Reforms and Their Effects on School Segregation.
Quelle	In: On education, 4 (2021) 11, 7 S.Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2571-7855
DOI	10.17899/on_ed.2021.11.4
Schlagwörter	Bildungspolitik; Eltern; Schulwahl; Schulbezirk; Grundschule; Segregation; Deutschland; Nordrhein-Westfalen
Abstract	Parents' selective school choices play a key role in exacerbating school segregation across the globe. As a result, numerous studies have investigated parents' choice practices, while less attention has been paid to the role of the institutional context itself. Taking the introduction of free primary school choice in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, as an example, in this article, I seek to provide insights into the motivations behind the policy reform and its subsequent effects. The article illustrates how the new admission system changes not only the roles, motivations, and strategies of parents, but also those of primary schools. Consequently, the abolition of primary school catchment areas led neither to more equality in choice nor to a responsible competition between primary schools. Instead, it reinforces social divisions and symbolic differences between primary schools.
Erfasst von	International Centre for Higher Education Research, Kassel
Update	2022/1