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ERIC Number: EJ1256188
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1745 -7823
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'If the Students Don't Come, or if They Don't Finish, We Don't Get the Money.' Principals, Immigration, and the Organisational Logic of School Choice in Sweden
Voyer, Andrea
Ethnography and Education, v14 n4 p448-464 2019
School choice is associated with increased educational inequality and across-school segregation. This article documents the organisational practices and logics affecting school segregation and inequality. Through an institutional ethnographic study of principals' responses to school choice within the context of immigration in Malmö, Sweden, I find that principals work to align their schools with generalised conceptions of a 'good' school -- a 'Swedish' school without many immigrants. Principals pursue the image or reality of 'Swedishness' through choices about the presentation of the school, approaches to managing enrolment, selection of programmes of study, and even decisions about where schools are located. Through their administrative work, principals write presumed preferences for Swedishness into the structure of the school system. The results suggest that, when addressing the link between school choice and equality, group preferences of school choosers cannot be considered independently of the organisation of schooling accomplished by principals and other organisational actors.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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