School Choice in the "Stratilingual" City of Vancouver

Autor/inn/en	Yoon, Ee-Seul; Gulson, Kalervo N.
Titel	School Choice in the "Stratilingual" City of Vancouver
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31 (2010) 6, S.703-718 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
Schlagwörter	Middle Class; School Choice; Multilingualism; Social Differences; Foreign Countries; Political Affiliation; Whites; Sociolinguistics; Parent Attitudes; Social Stratification; Politics of Education; Ethnology; Ethnic Diversity; Urban Environment; Educational Sociology; Canada; Canada (Vancouver) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sozialer Unterschied; Ausland; Politisches Interesse; White; Weißer; Soziolinguistik; Elternverhalten; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Ethnologie; Stadtökologie; Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Kanada
Abstract	This paper examines the links between language, social difference and political domination in the practices of parental school choice at the heart of a global city, Vancouver. Vancouver is a highly diverse city, especially in terms of language. Its inner city is replete with multiple languages whose exchange values are not equal. In this context, our case study of two elementary schools observes that white middle-class parents choose a predominantly white school--whose students are non-ESL and have a second language choice of French--in a socially and ethnically mixed inner city neighbourhood, creating a stark imbalance in the student population of local neighbourhood schools. This paper examines parents' accounts of their choices, which they rationalise on the basis of linguistic competency and differentiation from multilingual others. We draw from Pierre Bourdieu's theory of language and symbolic power and Ghassan Hage's spatial theory of nationalist practice to understand the linguistic dimension of school choice rationalisation made by white middle-class parents. In the context of these insights, we argue that the way anglophone white middle-class parents choose their children's schools is intricately linked to active processes of reproducing a "stratilingual" society in Canada. (Contains 8 notes.) (As Provided).
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