Between Structure and Agency: Contextualizing School Leaders' Strategic Responses to Market Pressures

Autor/in	Jabbar, Huriya
Titel	Between Structure and Agency: Contextualizing School Leaders' Strategic Responses to Market Pressures
Quelle	In: American Journal of Education, 122 (2016) 3, S.399-431 (33 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0195-6744
DOI	10.1086/685850
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Competition; Commercialization; Social Structure; Reputation; Strategic Planning; School Administration; Leaders; Social Networks; Case Studies; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Wettkampf; Sozialstruktur; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Fachleiter; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	School choice is expected to place pressure on schools to improve to attract and retain students. However, little research has examined how competition for students actually operates in socially embedded education markets. Economic approaches tend to emphasize individual actors' choices and agency, an undersocialized perspective, whereas sociological approaches emphasize social structures such as race, class, and institutions over agency, an oversocialized view. In this study, I examine the interplay between structure and agency in education markets to (a) examine how a school's position in the market hierarchy influences how it is represented and viewed as a rival by network competitors and to (b) explore how a school's position in the network of competitors influences the possible and actual strategic actions that schools adopt in response to market pressures. Using case studies from New Orleans, I find that school leaders' positions in the socially constructed market hierarchy and in a social network of competitors influence their actions, which further determine their market positions. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01