Urban education, the middle classes and their dilemmas of school choice

Oría, Angela; Cardini, Alejandra; Ball, Stephen J.; Stamou, Eleni; Kolokitha, Magda; Vertigan, Sean; Flores‐Moreno, Claudia

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“…Such an ethical dilemma rarely outweighs the strange moral injunction to act within market imperatives, however. Oria et al (2007) demonstrate something similar through their own studies of school choice among middle-class parents, where they argue that the promotion of school choice generates and legitimates an irresistible, compulsory moral injunction to pursue competitive familial advantage.…”

Section: This Is Your Charter It Will Give New Rights To You As An Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing through parents: a genealogical enquiry of education policy and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in England

Olmedo

Wilkins

2016

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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Section: This Is Your Charter It Will Give New Rights To You As An Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing through parents: a genealogical enquiry of education policy and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in England

Olmedo

Wilkins

2016

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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“…putting one's family first. Reay et al (2008) suggest that the pursuit of competitive familial advantage (Oría et al, 2007) is intensified in an era of what Savage (2000, p. 139) calls the 'individualising of middle class career'. This is an era of anxiety as middle class parents are increasingly concerned about the future career of their offspring (Ball, 2003).…”

Section: Parents-as-consumers: Parental Choice As a Neoliberal Educatmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Her guilt is exacerbated by her friends' commitment to the state school system despite their economic capability to afford a fee-paying school. Yet, Francesca is mindful of the cultural condition in which she is situated and in the context of a neoliberal society (Harvey, 2005), this necessitates putting her family first (Oría et al, 2007).…”

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Class talk: habitus and class in parental narratives of school choice

Hill

Lai

2016

Journal of Marketing Management

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This article explores how social class is linguistically negotiated and contested in parental narratives of school choice in the British education marketplace. Our study reveals prevalent yet obscured vestiges of 'class talk', and in doing so, unmasks 'micro-political' acts of status claiming. Using interactional narrative interviewing with 30 parents, we explore how inter-and intra-class differences are emotionally expressed, thus exposing the embodied dispositions of parents' habitus and its' subtle influence on school choice. The parental narratives also unveil a moral and political tension between the neoliberal ideal of entrepreneurial self-advancement and an egalitarian sentiment for social equality. Our study therefore challenges the neoliberal educational policy of market choice in closing the attainment gap.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…This is the topic of three programs ( in favor of actions directed at the future (Ball, 2003;Oria et al, 2007). The stereotypical notion of "the silent northern and rural male" whose main interest is hunting and fishing hereby contributes to the construction of asocial behavior.…”

Section: Gender Class and Placementioning

confidence: 99%

Discourses of education and constitutions of class: public discourses on education in Swedish PBS television

Reimers

2014

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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Drawing on post-structural perspectives and data from public discourses on education in Swedish television, the paper investigates articulations of neoliberal education discourse in opposition to and together with a discourse of equal education. It then examines how class emerges and is made significant (as economic subject positions and categories) in the framework of these articulations. The analysis shows that the programs, in a complex way, articulate and construct public education as simultaneously a private and a public good.Class, as subject positions that point to different economic life trajectories, is constituted as intersections of place, race, gender and school achievements.Keywords: education in the media, educational discourses, education and class IntroductionThe Swedish welfare society has been renowned as an example of social engineering designed to create an equal society (see, e.g., Ball & Larsson, 1989;Wolfe, 2000). This is also the case within public education. From the 1940s onward, public education has been seen as a means to compensate for differing class based prerequisites (Lundahl, 2002). This is the reason why Sweden has had a nine-year comprehensive primary school since the 1960s. However, since the beginning of the 1990s, the school system has experienced major changes. Instead of serving as an example of an encompassing comprehensive school aimed at offering an equal education for everybody, Swedish primary education has become market-driven. The former catchphrase "equal education for everyone" has been replaced by "free choice", and the notion that difference and competition-between schools and between students-will generate better educational results (Lundahl, 2002). This shift in focus and aim can be seen as a result of the Discourses of Education and Constitutions of classhegemony of a neoliberal educational discourse (see e.g., Bunar, 2009;Dahlstedt & Hertzberg, 2011), with a shift from education as a common good to education as a private good (Englund (1996;. The question asked here is how this discursive shift is articulated in a public discourse and how this affects constitutions of class as categories and subject positions. How is the hegemony of the neoliberal educational discourse articulated? What happens to representations of inequalities in education when the dominant discourse abandons the focus on equal education for everyone in favour of meeting the needs and wishes of individuals? What happens to representations of classed positions when education policies change from focusing on advancing the common good to focusing on creating a competitive market? The significance of class in educationThe notion that class plays a significant role in education is by no means a new insight.A wealth of studies point to schools and education as classed contexts in which socioeconomic background is of considerable importance for how individuals succeed within the educational system (see e.g. Caldas, Bernier, & Marceau, 2009;Carey, 2008;Croll, 2008;Willis, 1977). This research ind...

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Urban education, the middle classes and their dilemmas of school choice

Cited by 60 publications

References 7 publications

Governing through parents: a genealogical enquiry of education policy and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in England

Governing through parents: a genealogical enquiry of education policy and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in England

Class talk: habitus and class in parental narratives of school choice

Discourses of education and constitutions of class: public discourses on education in Swedish PBS television

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