The Chimera of Choice: Gentrification, School Choice, and Community

Autor/in	Makris, Molly Vollman
Titel	The Chimera of Choice: Gentrification, School Choice, and Community
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 93 (2018) 4, S.411-429 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
DOI	10.1080/0161956X.2018.1488394
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Community Change; Urban Schools; Parent Attitudes; Individual Power; Psychological Patterns; Advantaged; Low Income Groups; Community Relations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Elternverhalten; Eigeninitiative
Abstract	This study investigates school choice in a gentrified urban context and examines the ways in which school choice as rhetoric creates false perceptions, how school-choice policies can betray the very principle they espouse, and how choice (while sought after by many) can undermine community. As school choice continues to expand and gain traction politically, it is increasingly important to understand the effects it has on a variety of populations and how the rhetoric surrounding the policy does not correspond with the lived realities on the ground. This research borrows the concept from psychology and economics of "the paradox of choice" (Schwartz, 2004) and applies it to school choice to demonstrate some of the negative influences of choice on parents and their views of schooling. This research calls into question one of the major arguments for the expansion of school choice--that it provides all parents the opportunity to choose the best fit for their child--by demonstrating that in actual practice choice does not meet parents' expectation that they are in control of their child's educational options, regardless of their class background. In this case study the choice system results in a lack of agency, anger and hostility, discontent with schooling options, and an undermining of community connections. Although a number of families do believe they had a choice and were satisfied with their child's school options, or became staunch advocates for their local district schools, the choice landscape still creates tensions. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01