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Blake, Beverley; Mestry, Raj – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Major political changes since 1994 have initiated the pace of change in the South African education system. Parents' values, traditions and practices that served in the past were no longer relevant in the new dynamic educational environment. Parental school choice and "the right to choose" movement has subsequently come to the fore. The…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Aspiration, Parent Background, Predictor Variables
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Candipan, Jennifer – Sociology of Education, 2020
School choice expansion in recent decades has weakened the strong link between neighborhoods and schools created under a strict residence-based school assignment system, decoupling residential and school enrollment decisions for some families. Recent work suggests that the neighborhood-school link is weakening the most in neighborhoods…
Descriptors: School Choice, Neighborhoods, Social Class, Disadvantaged
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van Schaik, Saskia D. M.; Oudgenoeg-Paz, Ora; Atun-Einy, Osnat – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The present study explored cultural differences in parental beliefs about motor development across 2 Western cultures: Israel and the Netherlands. Can 2 cultural models be distinguished regarding infant motor development in Israel and the Netherlands or are parental beliefs about motor development similar across these cultures? Using a…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Infants, Child Development