Playing a Different Game: The Contextualised Decision-Making Processes of Minority Ethnic Students in Choosing a Higher Education Institution

Autor/in	Smith, Heather
Titel	Playing a Different Game: The Contextualised Decision-Making Processes of Minority Ethnic Students in Choosing a Higher Education Institution
Quelle	In: Race, Ethnicity and Education, 10 (2007) 4, S.415-437 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361-3324
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Community Colleges; Foreign Countries; Decision Making; Ethnicity; Minority Groups; Undergraduate Students; Working Class; College Choice; Whites; Social Class; Gender Differences; Secondary School Students; Interviews; Student Attitudes; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Community college; Community College; Ausland; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Ethnizität; Ethnische Minderheit; Arbeiterklasse; Studienortwahl; White; Weißer; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sekundarschüler; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	This paper adds to the small but growing body of literature which probes the complex decision-making processes undertaken by minority ethnic students, and particularly working-class minority ethnic students, when choosing a higher education institution. Previous studies have focussed on areas with ethnically diverse local populations. This article presents the findings of a small-scale study examining the decision-making processes of minority ethnic school, undergraduate and postgraduate (PGCE) students in a predominantly "white" area of England. Some similarities with the previous research are found, but also some interesting contextual differences, particularly in students' prioritisation of institutions with an ethnic mix. The paper discusses how students in this context make decisions about what is an acceptable choice based on a complex inter-related web of factors relating to ethnicity, class and gender. The level of agency assumed within conceptions of habitus when applied to students' decision-making processes in the context of higher education is also discussed. (Contains 1 table and 4 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10