Choosing while black: examining Afro-Caribbean families' engagement with school choice in Birmingham

Thesis

Over the past twenty years, parental choice has become the favoured Government policy governing school allocation and the dominant legislative approach for improving educational attainment. The existing sociological research on school choice has primarily focused on the ways in which families of different socioeconomic backgrounds have engaged with the process of listing preferences for secondary schools; while class has been emphasised, the choice processes of ethnic minorities have receive...

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Authors: Mazyck, R; Rachel Mazyck

• Publication date: 2009
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: education; ethnicity; school choice
• Subjects: Families,children and childcare; Evaluation of social policies,programmes and practice; Ethnic minorities and ethnicity; Education