The Australian middle class and education: a small-scale study of the school choice experience as framed by ‘My School’ within inner city families Rowe, Emma E. and Windle, Joel 2012, The Australian middle class and education: a small-scale study of the school choice experience as framed by ‘My School’ within inner city families, Critical studies in education, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 137-151, doi: 10.1080/17508487.2012.672327. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The Australian middle class and education: a small-scale study of the school choice experience as framed by ‘My School’ within inner city families Author(s) Rowe, Emma E. orcid.org/0000-0002-3747-8070 Windle, Joel Journal name Critical studies in education Volume number 53 Issue number 2 Start page 137 End page 151 Total pages 15 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2012 ISSN 1750-8487 1750-8495 Summary With the launch of the ‘My School’ website in 2010, Australia became a relative latecomer to the publication of national school performance comparisons. This paper primarily seeks to explore the school choice experience as framed by ‘My School’ website, for participating middle-class families. We will draw on Bourdieusian theory of cultural capital and relationship networks and Australian-based school choice research in order to contribute to understandings regarding the application of ‘My School’ data within participating families. Data collection consisted of qualitative, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with five families, each based within inner-city suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. The findings of this small-scale study indicate that participating middle-class families possessed highly developed strategies for locating and achieving enrolment in school-of-choice and therefore did not seek to apply available data on ‘My School’ to decision-making, despite each participant reviewing the available data. Language eng DOI 10.1080/17508487.2012.672327 Field of Research 160809 Sociology of Education Socio Economic Objective 930403 School/Institution Policies and Development HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2012, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30074740 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education 2018 ERA Submission Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 29 Jul 2015, 10:32:12 EST Thu, 30 Jul 2015, 05:00:53 EST Thu, 30 Jul 2015, 08:16:14 EST Fri, 30 Oct 2015, 05:07:54 EST Tue, 05 Apr 2016, 10:33:18 EST Tue, 05 Apr 2016, 10:34:25 EST Tue, 05 Apr 2016, 10:36:24 EST Wed, 07 Sep 2016, 09:58:30 EST Sat, 17 Jun 2017, 02:35:12 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 18 times in TR Web of Science Cited 19 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 396 Abstract Views, 12 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 29 Jul 2015, 10:32:12 EST

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