Local Links, Local Knowledge: Choosing Care Settings and Schools

Autor/inn/en	Vincent, Carol; Braun, Annette; Ball, Stephen
Titel	Local Links, Local Knowledge: Choosing Care Settings and Schools
Quelle	In: British Educational Research Journal, 36 (2010) 2, S.279-298 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-1926
Schlagwörter	Social Class; Indigenous Knowledge; Social Differences; Social Status; School Choice; Child Care; Middle Class; Working Class; Foreign Countries; Preschool Education; Interviews; Public Sector; Labor Market; United Kingdom; United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Sozialer Unterschied; Sozialer Status; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Mittelschicht; Arbeiterklasse; Ausland; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Öffentlicher Sektor; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article draws on data from two recently completed Economic and Social Research Council funded projects in order to examine class differences and similarities in choice of school and choice of childcare. The authors argue that there is every reason to believe that in many circumstances, within its particular mechanisms and practices, choice produces specific and pervasive forms of inequity. The processes by which working-class parents in one study chose care settings and schools could be seen as less skilled, less informed, less careful than the decision making of many of the middle-class respondents. However, this is not an argument that the authors advance, noting instead that the practices and meanings of choice are subject to significant social, cultural and economic variations in terms of who gets to choose, who gets their choices, and what, how and why people choose when they are able to. The authors argue that there are alternative sets of priorities in play for the working-class respondents, involving attachments to the communal and the local. (Contains 1 table and 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10