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Factors That Influence The Decisions Parents Make When Choosing A Secondary School For Their Children, Rosemary Cahill
Factors That Influence The Decisions Parents Make When Choosing A Secondary School For Their Children, Rosemary Cahill
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
The impetus for this portfolio is the accelerating drift of Australian school students from state-run, free government schools to fee-paying independent and/or Catholic schools within the non-government sector. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data show that between 1996 and 2006, student enrolments in non-government schools grew by 21.5% compared with 1.2% in government schools (Australian Bureau of Statistics [ABS], 2007). In this portfolio, a sociological lens reflective of the pragmatic paradigm is applied to the question of school choice in order to understand parents' thinking behind the choices they are making and, moving forward, how the funding and governance of …