Navigating Educational and Urban Landscapes: Middle-Class School Choice Strategies in Local Education Markets

The middle-classes use school choice as a strategy of class reproduction and comparative advantage. In this article, we show how middle-class parental school choice strategies are spatially dependent and how schooling preferences and final choices are bounded by the social and educational characteri...

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Autores: González, Sheila, Bonal, Xavier, Montes, Alejandro, Pagès, Marcel
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/210985
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/210985
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Segregació
Sociologia de l'educació
Educació diferenciada
Segregation
Educational sociology
Single-sex classes (Education)
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Resumo:The middle-classes use school choice as a strategy of class reproduction and comparative advantage. In this article, we show how middle-class parental school choice strategies are spatially dependent and how schooling preferences and final choices are bounded by the social and educational characteristics of the local education market of their neighborhood of residence in the city of Barcelona. Our findings reveal interesting differences relating to the search process and final decisions, which are dependent on parental preferences and risk perception in the different local education markets. Reflections on some policy implications of the analysis are considered in the conclusions.