Urban Education, the Middle Classes and Their Dilemmas of School Choice

Autor/inn/en	Oria, Angela; Cardini, Alejandra; Ball, Stephen; Stamou, Eleni; Kolokitha, Magda; Vertigan, Sean; Flores-Moreno, Claudia
Titel	Urban Education, the Middle Classes and Their Dilemmas of School Choice
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 22 (2007) 1, S.91-105 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Middle Class; Urban Education; School Choice; Ethics; Adolescents; Interviews; Parent Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Student Needs; Academic Aspiration; Parent Aspiration; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Ethik; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Elternverhalten; Ausland; Elternwille
Abstract	This article explores a framework for an ethics of choice in urban education. It outlines the educational ambitions and ambivalences of a group of middle class families in one locality. The research on which we draw involved interviews with 28 middle class parents in the London Borough of Hackney and is part of a comparative study of urban middle class parents conducted in collaboration with the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politique, Paris. Our analysis of the tensions and dilemmas faced by this group of parents deploys an approach derived from the work of American philosopher Thomas Nagel. What we see playing across and through these interviews are the interests and abstractions of a particular fraction of metropolitan middle class families. That is, a reflexive engagement with the social in terms of responsibility to the public good and the needs of "others" who matter as much as they do (the impersonal standpoint) is interwoven with the needs of specific children and the family in relation to imagined futures (the personal standpoint). (Contains 1 note.) (Author).
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