Social mix in neighbourhood and school? Parental school choice and its impact on educational segregation

社区和学校的社交融合？

• 批准号: 445595495
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Andreas Farwick
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Geographisches Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/445595495?language=en
• 关键词: Social; mix; neighbourhood; Parental; choice

School segregation is currently a socio-spatial and educational key challenge in German and other European cities. Since particularly primary schools have a crucial impact on processes of social mobility, analysing segregation in primary schools is of high importance for research in urban geography: School segregation does not only exacerbate children’s educational opportunities through compositional effects, it also impacts on social interactions and aggravates children’s and parents’ dealing with social and ethnic diversity. Starting point of this research proposal is the aggravation of socio-spatial polarization not only on the neighbourhood level but also on a smaller spatial scale and in particular in educational organisations. Residential and school segregation are strongly interlinked. However, the latter mostly exceeds the former and is thus a main driver in reinforcing socio-spatial inequalities. High levels of social and ethnic segregation become already visible in kindergartens and primary schools. Due to parents’ (socially) selective school choices, high levels of segregation can also be identified in those kindergartens and primary schools located in mixed urban neighbourhoods - which illustrates the high significance of this topic. So far, there is only a small number of geographical research studies on the interplay between residential and school segregation. This research proposal seeks to fill this gap. The proposal’s main aim is the theoretically based, systematic analysis of the drivers and the interplay between residential and school segregation. The project thus contributes to an advancement of knowledge as regards the so far less examined interface between the geography of education and neighbourhood research. As a case study, a neighbourhood from a large city in North Rhine-Westphalia was selected which seems to be particularly suitable to analyse the determinants and mechanisms of parental school choice. The neighbourhood includes five primary schools. Their social and ethnic composition strongly deviates from each other but also from the small-scale socio-spatial composition of the neighbourhood. Based on this case study, the interplay of individual characteristics, (local) information sources and networks, and the development of primary school profiles and information policies as well as their impact on parental school choice practices are analysed. For the first time in the German context, quantitative and qualitative empirical data is combined allowing both to illustrate the extent and development of parents’ school choice strategies and school segregation and to scrutinize the underlying motivations and considerations. The project is based on a combination of a quantitative survey among the parents in five different primary schools, in-depth qualitative parent interviews, and expert interviews, which enables a comprehensive understanding of the structures, processes and mechanisms of school and residential segregation.

学校隔离目前是德国和其他欧洲城市社会空间和教育的关键挑战。特别是小学对社会流动的过程有着至关重要的影响，因此分析小学的种族隔离对城市地理学的研究具有重要意义：学校种族隔离不仅通过构成效应加剧了儿童的受教育机会，还影响了社会互动，加剧了儿童和家长处理社会和种族多样性的问题。本研究建议的出发点是社会空间极化的加剧，不仅在邻里层面，而且在较小的空间尺度上，特别是在教育机构中。居住隔离和学校隔离紧密相连。然而，后者大多超过前者，因此是加剧社会空间不平等的主要驱动因素。在幼儿园和小学里，社会和种族的高度隔离已经很明显。由于父母（社会上）对学校的选择性选择，在那些位于混合城市社区的幼儿园和小学中也可以发现高度的种族隔离-这说明了本主题的高度重要性。迄今为止，关于居住隔离与学校隔离相互作用的地理研究较少。本研究计划旨在填补这一空白。该提案的主要目的是基于理论，系统地分析住宅和学校隔离的驱动因素和相互作用。因此，该项目有助于提高迄今为止较少研究的教育地理学和社区研究之间的界面的知识。作为一个案例研究，北莱茵-威斯特伐利亚州一个大城市的社区似乎特别适合分析父母选择学校的决定因素和机制。这一带有五所小学。他们的社会和种族构成彼此严重偏离，也偏离了社区的小规模社会空间构成。在此个案研究的基础上，分析了个体特征、（本地）信息来源和网络、小学概况和信息政策的发展之间的相互作用，以及它们对家长择校做法的影响。这是第一次在德国的背景下，定量和定性的经验数据相结合，可以说明家长择校策略和学校隔离的程度和发展，并仔细检查潜在的动机和考虑因素。该项目结合了对五所不同小学的家长进行的定量调查、深入的定性家长访谈和专家访谈，从而全面了解学校和住宅隔离的结构、过程和机制。