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Publication Date: 2012
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The Australian Middle Class and Education: A Small-Scale Study of the School Choice Experience as Framed by "My School" within Inner City Families
Rowe, Emma E.; Windle, Joel
Critical Studies in Education, v53 n2 p137-151 2012
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.
Descriptors: 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
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Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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