Kobus Lombard is an Associate Professor in School of Educational Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, and programme manager of the NPDE programme on campus. Current research interests include assessment, student teachers' critical thinking, teacher identity, teaching practice for professional development and reflexive teaching.
AbstractThe aim of this article is to report on a phenomenological study intended to explore the possible reasons why educator-parents based at township schools transfer their own children to former Model C schools. By making use of focus group interviews and written responses, sixty-one primary and secondary educator-parents from township schools in two districts of the Gauteng province, South Africa, participated in the research. From the research responses, ten themes emerged. When these themes are compared with a review of available literature on school choice, a remarkable correspondence is evident. Following this correspondence, it is evident that educatorparents' school choice relies heavily on reasons associated with quality education. If the latter is regarded as being the central reason for learner migration from township schools to former Model C schools, radical and committed intervention strategies are required to improve the quality of township schools.
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