69.056-7 - The Interplay of Structure, Culture, and Agency in School Choice Policies and Practices

• In Event: 69.056 - Roundtable Session 31

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

School choice provisions are continually expanding at local, state, federal, and international levels. Some advocates offer that schools will improve or be “fixed” through efficient and effective competitive education markets, a position based on rational choice assumptions. Critics are concerned with the potential for public schools’ privatization. We specifically focus on an area that has received less attention yet has significance for understanding intricate aspects of policies in local settings and for examining policy positions in new ways. This symposium explores the complex interplay of structure, culture, and agency in market-based school choice policies and practices across a variety of locations and in different applications, adding to an important body of research related to nuanced social contexts of school choice.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 4: School Choice and Other School and District Reform

Chair

• Christopher A. Lubienski, Indiana University

Papers

• When States Take Charge: Not Only a Big-City Reform - Andrew Saultz, Miami University - Oxford; Joel R Malin, Miami University - Oxford; Jeffrey W. Snyder

• Pierre Bourdieu and School Choice: Marginalized Urban Families - Ee-Seul Yoon, University of Manitoba

• Teacher Churn and the Culture of School Choice: Power and Control in Urban Charter Schools - Terrenda Corisa White, University of Colorado-Boulder

• Choosing Schools in Arizona's Mature Education Market: Evidence From Stakeholders in a Community - Amanda U. Potterton, University of Kentucky

Discussant

• Hugh Mehan, University of California - San Diego