"Spoilt for Choice": The Working Classes and Educational Markets.

Reay, Diane; Ball, Stephen J.

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Publication Date: 1997

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"Spoilt for Choice": The Working Classes and Educational Markets.

Reay, Diane; Ball, Stephen J.

Oxford Review of Education, v23 n1 p89-101 Mar 1997

Explores the ambivalence of many working class parents to the idea of school choice. Maintains that, for many working class parents, school is associated with powerful memories and images of personal failure. Includes excerpts from interviews and data collected from an Economic and Social Research Council study. (MJP)

Descriptors: Academic Failure, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Parent Aspiration, Parent Attitudes, Parent School Relationship, Public Education, School Choice, Secondary Education, Working Class

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)

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