School Choice: How parents negotiate the new school market in Australia

School Choice: How parents negotiate the new school market in Australia
ISBN-10
1741765145
ISBN-13
9781741765144
Series
School Choice
Category
Education
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2009-01-01
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Authors
Geoffrey Sherington, Craig Campbell, Helen Proctor

Description

"Parents are willing to move suburbs, compromise their financial security or give up travel to get their children into their preferred school. Most parents themselves were educated in public schools and contend they are satisfied with the experience, yet now many aspire to a private school education for their children. What is motivating parents and driving school choice? What are the implications for Australian society into the future? Drawing on extensive interviews with parents and school principals in independent, religious and public schools, School Choice gets to the heart of this movement for radical social change. The authors examine the aspirations of middle class parents, school marketing campaigns, government policy, and the changing nature of independent, religious and public schools."--Provided by publisher.

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