School choice in the stratilingual city of Vancouver
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11166209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eun Sun Yoon (0000-0003-0160-7472, University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Ee‐Seul Yoon (University of British Columbia), Kalervo N Gulson (0000-0002-3581-9935, UNSW Sydney) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 703-718 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01425692.2010.528871 |
| OpenAlex | W2130342587 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper examines the links between language, social difference and political domination in the practices of parental school choice at the heart of a global city, Vancouver. Vancouver is a highly diverse city, especially in terms of language. Its inner city is replete with multiple languages whose exchange values are not equal. In this context, our case study of two elementary schools observes that white middle‐class parents choose a predominantly white school – whose students are non‐ESL and have a second language choice of French – in a socially and ethnically mixed inner city neighbourhood, creating a stark imbalance in the student population of local neighbourhood schools. This paper examines parents' accounts of their choices, which they rationalise on the basis of linguistic competency and differentiation from multilingual others. We draw from Pierre Bourdieu's theory of language and symbolic power and Ghassan Hage's spatial theory of nationalist practice to understand the linguistic dimension of school choice rationalisation made by white middle‐class parents. In the context of these insights, we argue that the way anglophone white middle‐class parents choose their children's schools is intricately linked to active processes of reproducing a stratilingual society in Canada
Middle class · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Population · Rationalisation · School choice · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy
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| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |