‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents

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Autor(a) principal: Sá, Virgínio
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Antunes, Fátima
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/29108
Resumo: Taking as an empirical basis some of the data from a questionnaire applied to a sample of approximately eight hundred parents from three public secondary schools, this paper discusses how various categories of parents organise «hierarchies of excellence» through the «arguments for choice» that they prioritise when choosing their children’s school for entrance into secondary education (year 10 of schooling, equivalent to the year 4 of compulsory secondary education in Spain - ESO). The analysis of the data highlights that, in all segments of parents, a group can be found that attaches great importance to academic indicators; in addition, an unequal concentration of these groups was verified in the three establishments studied, which reflects a predominance of different types of public in each school. Thus, even though the importance attributed to the «arguments for choice» varies according to the educational level of the parents, in the cases studied the «hierarchies of excellence» are distinguished, above all, by the school variable.
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spelling ‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents«Argumentos» para la elección del centro educativo: un estudio de caso con padres portuguesesSchool choiceEducational policyFamily-school relationshipEducational inequalitySocial inequalityPublic schoolsElección de escuelaPolítica educativaRelaciones familia-escuelaDesigualdad educativaDesigualdad socialEscuelas públicasSocial SciencesTaking as an empirical basis some of the data from a questionnaire applied to a sample of approximately eight hundred parents from three public secondary schools, this paper discusses how various categories of parents organise «hierarchies of excellence» through the «arguments for choice» that they prioritise when choosing their children’s school for entrance into secondary education (year 10 of schooling, equivalent to the year 4 of compulsory secondary education in Spain - ESO). The analysis of the data highlights that, in all segments of parents, a group can be found that attaches great importance to academic indicators; in addition, an unequal concentration of these groups was verified in the three establishments studied, which reflects a predominance of different types of public in each school. Thus, even though the importance attributed to the «arguments for choice» varies according to the educational level of the parents, in the cases studied the «hierarchies of excellence» are distinguished, above all, by the school variable.Tomando como base empírica algunos de los datos del cuestionario aplicado a una muestra de cerca de ochocientos padres seleccionados en tres centros públicos de enseñanza secundaria, en este artículo analizamos el modo cómo diferentes categorías de padres organizan «jerarquías de excelencia», a través de los «argumentos de elección» a los que dan prioridad cuando escogen el centro educativo, al pasar a la enseñanza secundaria en 10º curso (4º de la ESO). Del análisis de los datos destaca que, en todos los segmentos de padres, encontramos una fracción que concede gran importancia a los indicadores de naturaleza académica; verificamos, además, una concentración desigual de estas fracciones en los tres establecimientos estudiados, lo que refleja un predominio de diferentes tipos de público en cada escuela. De este modo, aunque varíe la importancia atribuida a los «argumentos de elección», según el nivel de estudios de los padres, en los casos estudiados las «jerarquías de excelencia» se distinguen, sobre todo, de acuerdo con la variable centro.Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS)Universidade do MinhoSá, VirgínioAntunes, Fátima20132013-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/29108eng0210-52331988-590310.5477/cis/reis.143.93info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T11:55:58Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/29108Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:45:34.302604Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv ‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents
«Argumentos» para la elección del centro educativo: un estudio de caso con padres portugueses
title ‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents
spellingShingle ‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents
Sá, Virgínio
School choice
Educational policy
Family-school relationship
Educational inequality
Social inequality
Public schools
Elección de escuela
Política educativa
Relaciones familia-escuela
Desigualdad educativa
Desigualdad social
Escuelas públicas
Social Sciences
title_short ‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents
title_full ‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents
title_fullStr ‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents
title_full_unstemmed ‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents
title_sort ‘Arguments’ for school choice: a case study with Portuguese parents
author Sá, Virgínio
author_facet Sá, Virgínio
Antunes, Fátima
author_role author
author2 Antunes, Fátima
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Sá, Virgínio
Antunes, Fátima
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv School choice
Educational policy
Family-school relationship
Educational inequality
Social inequality
Public schools
Elección de escuela
Política educativa
Relaciones familia-escuela
Desigualdad educativa
Desigualdad social
Escuelas públicas
Social Sciences
topic School choice
Educational policy
Family-school relationship
Educational inequality
Social inequality
Public schools
Elección de escuela
Política educativa
Relaciones familia-escuela
Desigualdad educativa
Desigualdad social
Escuelas públicas
Social Sciences
description Taking as an empirical basis some of the data from a questionnaire applied to a sample of approximately eight hundred parents from three public secondary schools, this paper discusses how various categories of parents organise «hierarchies of excellence» through the «arguments for choice» that they prioritise when choosing their children’s school for entrance into secondary education (year 10 of schooling, equivalent to the year 4 of compulsory secondary education in Spain - ESO). The analysis of the data highlights that, in all segments of parents, a group can be found that attaches great importance to academic indicators; in addition, an unequal concentration of these groups was verified in the three establishments studied, which reflects a predominance of different types of public in each school. Thus, even though the importance attributed to the «arguments for choice» varies according to the educational level of the parents, in the cases studied the «hierarchies of excellence» are distinguished, above all, by the school variable.
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