The book particularly focusses on the main question arising from the interviews; who does the choosing – mother, father or the child?
What contribution, in particular, do prior educational or learning experiences have to continued educational participation, or the desire to return to educational opportunities as adult men and women, and over the life course?
This book, based upon both qualitative studies and quantitative datasets, offers a rare insight into the overall implications for current and future policy and will provide a springboard for further research and debate.
This book will be of interests to students of education.
Mother's Intuition? (1994): Choosing Secondary Schools
This book will be of interests to students of education.
The governing body, in conjunction with parents, will be able to develop policies which reflect the parents' wishes and the community they serve' (2000: 4). Indeed, it constructs a supplementary role for schools to that of parents.
This book is comprised of a broad selection of articles originally published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education.
This book is comprised of a broad selection of articles originally published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education.
Through an analysis of the postwar transformation in British economic, social and cultural life, this important book provides valuable insights into how and why this unprecedented change has taken place.