The Geography of School Choice in a City with Growing Inequality: The Case of Vancouver

Autor/inn/en	Yoon, Ee-Seul; Lubienski, Christopher; Lee, Jin
Titel	The Geography of School Choice in a City with Growing Inequality: The Case of Vancouver
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 33 (2018) 2, S.279-298 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2017.1346203
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Neighborhoods; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Social Systems; Educational Change; Geographic Information Systems; Correlation; Social Differences; Equal Education; Decision Making; Advantaged; Student Mobility; Secondary Schools; Community Characteristics; Race; Ethnicity; Marketing; Canada (Vancouver) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Social system; Soziales System; Bildungsreform; Korrelation; Sozialer Unterschied; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Sekundarschule; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität
Abstract	This analysis aims to measure the impact of school choice policy on secondary school students' enrolment patterns within the social geography of Vancouver, an increasingly polarized global city. The rationale for the study is to examine the impact of "education market" reforms on the socio-economic composition of schools in a Canadian context, where a social welfare commitment to educational equality is being replaced by market-oriented policies and increasing social inequality. Our study is guided by Bourdieu's theory of site in considering whether growing inequality and polarization of wealth in a city are correlated with the ways families choose schools. We apply a geographical methodology (Geographic Information System) to delineate spatial patterns of choosing schools. Our analysis shows that those who opt out of the under-subscribed schools come from the neighborhoods with relatively higher capital than those who remain in their assigned schools. Also, those who opt into the over-subscribed schools in the affluent areas come from the neighborhoods with above-average levels of capital in Vancouver. Overall, we find that the spatial inequality in school choice generally follows the uneven distribution of capital/wealth across the city. The pattern of student mobility indicates an increasing level of segregation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01