Changing school loyalties and the middle class: A reflection on the developing fate of state comprehensive high schooling

Campbell, Craig

doi:10.1007/bf03216810

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“…There has been increased marketisation of the Australian school system. This has resulted in the residualising of government schools or the ‘flight’ of the middle classes to private education . Residualisation results in concentrations of students from backgrounds of lower SES, loss of student numbers and resources, and the vocationalising of the curriculum in government schools .…”

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Disadvantage and the ‘capacity to aspire’ to medical school

2014

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There is utility in exploring intersecting differences and Appardurai's theory of the 'capacity to aspire' for the purpose of understanding the causes of the under-representation of disadvantaged students in medical schools. A focused materialist approach to building the aspirations of disadvantaged students, particularly those attending schools located in poorer areas, is required if effective pre-entry equity programmes are to be developed and evaluated. Alternatively, medical schools might rethink their reliance on very high academic attainment in the admission process.

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Disadvantage and the ‘capacity to aspire’ to medical school

2014

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“…Overall though, providing 'choice' has resulted in a large movement of middle-class families out of the government sector (Campbell 2005, Campbell et al 2009, Connell 2011. Across Yet inequality is also growing within Australia's public system.…”

Section: School Choice and Polarisation: The Australian Contextmentioning

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Everyday and Cosmo-Multiculturalisms: Doing Diversity in Gentrifying School Communities

Ho¹,

Vincent²,

Butler³

2015

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Gentrification is transforming the class and ethnic profile of urban communities across the world, and changing how people deal with social and cultural difference. This paper looks at some of the social consequences of gentrification in Sydney, Australia, focusing on local schools. It argues that in this urban Australian context, the influx of middle-class Anglo-Australians into traditionally working-class, migrant-dominated areas is significantly changing how people relate to each other within local schools, often fragmenting and dividing school communities. These shifts are intensified by the public policy of school choice, which has enabled some parents to bypass their local school for a more 'desirable' one. This paper presents a close local study of two schools within one gentrifying Sydney suburb, examining how the schools have become more polarised. In particular, we examine how this demographic polarisation has given rise to two distinct modes of 'doing diversity', namely, everyday and cosmo-multiculturalisms. While the former is about daily, normalised encounters across difference, the latter is a form of multiculturalism based on strategic and learned 'appreciation' and consumption of difference, characteristic of gentrified communities.

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“…Whether it is schools (see for example Campbell, 2005) or institutions of higher education (Marginson, 2004), Australian education is changing its focus. Accompanying this change in culture has been a move in two major policy directions, marketisation and performativity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Another clear result of these policies is that schools are being encouraged to adopt a private provider model of educational provision (Campbell, 2005). This is also creating a new class of school, the new, non-government school characterised by non-denominational Christian values, reasonably inexpensive fee structures which includes many "value addeds" and management by a board of directors.…”

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Selling education through “culture”: responses to the market by new, non-government schools

English

2009

Aust. Educ. Res.

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The move to a market model of schooling has seen a radical restructuring of the ways schooling is "done" in recent times in Western countries. Although there has been a great deal of work to examine the effects of a market model on local school management (LSM), teachers' work and university systems, relatively little has been done to examine its effect on parents' choice of school in the non-government sector in Australia. This study examines the reasons parents give for choosing a nongovernment school in the outer suburbs of one large city in Australia. Drawing on the work of Bourdieu specifically his ideas on "cultural capital" (1977), this study revealed that parents were choosing the non-government school over the government school to ensure that their children would be provided, through the school's emphasis on cultural capital, access to a perceived "better life" thus enhancing the potential to facilitate "extraordinary children", one of the school's marketing claims.

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Changing school loyalties and the middle class: A reflection on the developing fate of state comprehensive high schooling

Cited by 26 publications

References 11 publications

Disadvantage and the ‘capacity to aspire’ to medical school

Disadvantage and the ‘capacity to aspire’ to medical school

Everyday and Cosmo-Multiculturalisms: Doing Diversity in Gentrifying School Communities

Selling education through “culture”: responses to the market by new, non-government schools

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