The Australian Middle Class and Education: A Small-Scale Study of the School Choice Experience as Framed by "My School" within Inner City Families

Autor/inn/en	Rowe, Emma E.; Windle, Joel
Titel	The Australian Middle Class and Education: A Small-Scale Study of the School Choice Experience as Framed by "My School" within Inner City Families
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 53 (2012) 2, S.137-151 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
DOI	10.1080/17508487.2012.672327
Schlagwörter	Middle Class; School Choice; Urban Areas; Foreign Countries; Web Sites; Academic Achievement; Comparative Analysis; Cultural Capital; Qualitative Research; Semi Structured Interviews; Decision Making; Social Networks; International Education; Educational Policy; Social Class; Neoliberalism; Equal Education; Political Attitudes; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Urban area; Stadtregion; Ausland; Web-Design; Schulleistung; Qualitative Forschung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Internationale Erziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Australien
Abstract	With the launch of the "My School" website in 2010, Australia became a relative latecomer to the publication of national school performance comparisons. This paper primarily seeks to explore the school choice experience as framed by "My School" website, for participating middle-class families. We will draw on Bourdieusian theory of cultural capital and relationship networks and Australian-based school choice research in order to contribute to understandings regarding the application of "My School" data within participating families. Data collection consisted of qualitative, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with five families, each based within inner-city suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. The findings of this small-scale study indicate that participating middle-class families possessed highly developed strategies for locating and achieving enrolment in school-of-choice and therefore did not seek to apply available data on "My School" to decision-making, despite each participant reviewing the available data. (As Provided).
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