Excellence in Primary Education. The 'best school' as a matter of negotiation in the discourse of school choice

该项目分析了在父母决定小学的背景下围绕沟通的话语。可以认为，在学术和雄心勃勃的环境中，根据居住地分配小学的做法越来越受到挑战。有关的父母已开始将这一问题视为他们个人的选择。该研究项目探讨了最好的学校，卓越和精英的想法是如何发展的。我们认为，关于精英和优秀的讨论在初等教育部门面临禁忌：在研究单位的背景下，小学是与所有儿童的学校意义上的平等概念联系最紧密的领域。本研究采用重点研究项目中的精英建构机制，重点研究父母选择教育机构的行为。这些做法是嵌入在创建区别和一致性的过程中。我们进一步分析了学校本身的观点，这反过来又从特定的环境中争夺孩子。从话语分析的角度来看，最好的学校是指话语努力的广泛分支领域内的持续协商过程的结果。两项研究在不同的地区进行，并采用参与观察和定性访谈相结合的家长学校选择的话语。研究项目的第二阶段将集中在学校选择实践的纵向分析。还将对同一家长进行两次访谈，以寻找家长与某些学校关系的稳定性和变化。此外，还将研究区域学校景观的发展。本文将对不同择校场所的运作模式和功能进行分析。

The project analyses the discourse surrounding communication in the context of parental decisions on primary schools. It can be assumed that primary school allocation according to place of residence has been increasingly challenged in academic and ambitious milieus. The parents concerned have come to regard the issue as a matter of their personal choice. The research project explores how ideas of best school, excellence and elite develop. We assume that the discourse on elite and excellence faces taboos in the primary education sector: in the context of the research unit the primary school is the area most strongly bound to the notion of equality in the sense of a school for all children. Adopting the mechanisms of elite construction used in the key research project, we focus on parental practices of choosing an educational institution. These practices are embedded in processes that create distinction and coherence. We furthermore analyse the perspective of the school itself, which in turn competes for children from specific milieus. From the discourse analysis perspective, the best school is presented as the result of ongoing processes of negotiation within the widely ramified field of referring discursive exertions.Two studies are carried out in different regions and follow the discourse on parental school choice using a combination of participant observation and qualitative interviews.The second period of the research project will focus on the longitudinal analysis of school choice practices. Two more interviews with the same parents will have been conducted searching for stability and changes in the relationship of the parents to certain schools. Furthermore the development of regional school landscapes will be investigated. Altogether the operation mode and functionality of the different arenas of school choice will be analysed.