Choosing for quality or inequality: current perspectives on the implementation of school choice policy in Sweden

Bunar, Nihad

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“…These policies have been implemented by several countries to make school admissions fairer and universally effective for all children but none of these initiatives have completely overcome the problems of socioeconomic or racial segregation in the national schools. In fact some have had negative impact on school mix and diversity of children in schools (Bartholo 2013, Bunar 2010, West and Allen 2008. The point here is that even a nationally governed school system cannot lead to a perfect mix of students in schools.…”

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Parental education as a determinant of school choice: A comparative study of school types in Pakistan

Siddiqui

2017

Research in Education

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractIn Pakistan school education is not compulsory for children and, therefore, sending a child to school is a matter of choice for parents. For those parents who choose school education for their children the options are government schools, private fees paid schools and Islamic education schools (Madrassahs). This research uses a large scale survey data collected in Pakistan for the years 2013 and 2014 in order to analyse association patterns between parental education and school choice for their children. The available information on 192, 789 parents has been used to measure the effect size of parental education on the type of school they choose for their children. The results show that parents having attended a formal school does not strongly relate with children's school enrolment. However, parents' higher number of years in formal education has a positive relation with children's enrolment in private schools and parents' having lesser number of years spent in formal education is positively related with children's enrolment is Madrassahs. The differences among parental school choice are noticeable between private schools and Madrassahs but less obvious between government schools and private schools. These findings are important to demonstrate the role of different school types in a society, and how parental education is related with overall stratification at school level. The research evidence presented here calls for a national policy where school education should be made compulsory for children and all schools should function under same regulations of children's access to school education. Disadvantaged parents should not have to rely on Madrassah education for their children and it should rather be parents' choice against state-maintained or private schools. IntroductionSchools are generally responsible for providing a social service of educating young children. When an important decision of children's school is made then parents have expectations that the school will be a safe place and all efforts will be made to provide a good learning environment for their children. These expectations are universal and irrespective of parents' social class or income status. However, schools provide different services from each other which make education a competitive market. Not all parents will have means, aspiration or knowledge to enter this market of schools. This emphasises the role of a national and free of cost school system where parents who have no means to enter in the market o...

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Section: School Choicementioning

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Parental education as a determinant of school choice: A comparative study of school types in Pakistan

Siddiqui

2017

Research in Education

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“…One of the things that is shown most clearly in the article is that despite free school choice there is still a visible segregation and difference between schools depending on where you live and what social, cultural and linguistic background you have (Bunar, 2010). Also shown is that the pupils resist and respond to the possibilities of choice and competitive demands in different ways (Öhrn, 2012).…”

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Pupil Responses to a Saviour Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Study

Schwartz

2012

European Educational Research Journal

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This article is based on research in an ongoing ethnographic investigation of schooling in a multiethnic, multiracial school on the outskirts of a major Swedish conurbation in an area of multidimensional poverty. First, it analyses the use of an individuating, visible pedagogy, which contains a large number of routines that are designed and intended to improve the performances and behaviour of pupils in the school. Secondly, it analyses the subjective responses of the pupils to this pedagogy. Hidden forms of resistance to the main intentions of the pedagogy are presented and discussed.

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“…Apple, Kenway and Singh, 2005). However, the shift from a uniform, centrally regulated school system to one with far-going decentralization and market elements, based on ideas of choice and competition, has been more rapid and radical in Sweden than in many other places (Bunar, 2010;Lundahl, 2011). The whole Swedish education system is now exposed to competition and choice, but marketization has hitherto been most powerful at upper secondary level.…”

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“…Values of universalism and equality are tending to be replaced by virtues of 'becoming the best' and 'making a difference'. Swedish schools presently work in a highly decentralized and, in international comparison, uniquely market-oriented context (Bunar, 2010;Lundahl, 2011). At the same time their work is supposed to build on the old values of the social democratic welfare-regime, which creates considerable tensions and professional dilemmas .…”

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Democracy lessons in market-oriented schools: The case of Swedish upper secondary education

Lundahl

Olson

2013

Education, Citizenship and Social

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Choosing for quality or inequality: current perspectives on the implementation of school choice policy in Sweden

Cited by 141 publications

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Parental education as a determinant of school choice: A comparative study of school types in Pakistan

Parental education as a determinant of school choice: A comparative study of school types in Pakistan

Pupil Responses to a Saviour Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Study

Democracy lessons in market-oriented schools: The case of Swedish upper secondary education

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