Geography in Parental Choice

Autor/in	Bell, Courtney
Titel	Geography in Parental Choice
Quelle	In: American Journal of Education, 115 (2009) 4, S.493-521 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0195-6744
Schlagwörter	Geographic Location; Geography; School Choice; Interviews; Middle Schools; High Schools; Decision Making; Parent Attitudes; Neighborhoods; Educational Quality; Urban Areas; Suburbs; Public Schools; Magnet Schools; Charter Schools; Private Schools; Institutional Characteristics; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geografie; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; High school; Oberschule; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Elternverhalten; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Urban area; Stadtregion; Einzugsbereich; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Private school; Privatschule
Abstract	If we are to fully understand the demand side of school choice, we have to understand geography. But geography is not simply distance and commute time. It is also neighborhood and community. Using two conceptions of geography--space and place--I investigate how and when geography factored into parents' thinking. Drawing on spatial analyses of parents' choice sets, the schools within two miles of their homes, and longitudinal in-depth interviews, I describe a range of ways in which geography shaped 36 parents' choices of middle and high schools in Detroit. Parents considered a small fraction of the schools near their homes; however, all the parents discussed geographic characteristics of schools. The role geography played in the choice process ranged from nonexistent to framing. By investigating how parents' geographic preferences played out with respect to their other preferences and the existing supply of schools, this study contributes to the field's increasingly nuanced understanding of parents' decision making. (Contains 3 notes, 3 tables, and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10