GGRC50H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 6: School Choice, Official Language, Cultural Capital
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Ball, stephen; bowe, richard; & gewirtz, sharon 1995. Circuits of schooling: a sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts. School choice in the stratilingual city of vancouver. The way white middle-(cid:272)lass pa(cid:396)e(cid:374)ts (cid:272)hoose thei(cid:396) (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s s(cid:272)hools is i(cid:374)t(cid:396)i(cid:272)atel(cid:455) li(cid:374)ked to a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e processes of reproducing a stratilingual society in canada. In this paper, we examine white middle-(cid:272)lass pa(cid:396)e(cid:374)ts(cid:859) s(cid:272)hool (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)es i(cid:374) (cid:396)elatio(cid:374) to linguistic distinction (anglophone/native english speaker vs. multilingual) in a socially and ethnically mixed urban neighbourhood in vancouver canada. Focus on the parents with mother language of english and positioned themselves relationally to multilingual others. * the landscape of choice, the social and spatial context of choice-making, underpin the parental school choice we observed locally. Language is significant to conceiving and imaging who belongs to, and who has the right to manger, the space of the nation, the community, and the school in a multicultural nation.
