Multicultural desires? Parental negotiation of multiculture and difference in choosing secondary schools for their children.

Bridget Byrne, Carla de Tona
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This paper considers the ways in which parents talk about choosing secondary schools in three areas of Greater Manchester. It argues that this can be a moment when parents are considering their own attitudes to, and shaping their children's experiences of, multiculture. Multiculture is taken as the everyday experience of living with difference. The paper argues that multiculture needs to be understood as shaped not only by racialized, ethnic or religious difference (as it is commonly understood) but also by other differences which parents may consider important, particularly class and approaches to parenting. We stress the need to examine what parents say about schooling in the context in which they are talking, which is shaped by local areas and the experiences of their children in primary schools. Based on interviews with an ethnically mixed groups of parents from different schools, we show how perceptions of the racialized and class demographics of schools can influence parents' choice of secondary schools. The paper also argues that attention needs to be paid to the ways in which terms such as 'multicultural' and 'mix' are applied uniformly to very different contexts, be they particular schools or local areas, suggesting there is a paucity of language in Britain when talking about multiculture.

多元文化的欲望吗?家长在为子女选择中学时对多元文化和差异的协商。
本文考虑了在大曼彻斯特的三个地区,家长谈论选择中学的方式。它认为,这可能是父母考虑自己对多元文化的态度,并塑造孩子对多元文化体验的时刻。多元文化被视为生活在差异中的日常体验。这篇论文认为,多元文化不仅需要被理解为由种族、民族或宗教差异(正如人们普遍理解的那样)塑造的,而且还需要被父母可能认为重要的其他差异塑造,特别是阶级和养育方式。我们强调,有必要在父母谈论学校教育的背景下检查他们所说的内容,这是由当地和他们的孩子在小学的经历所决定的。基于对来自不同学校的种族混合家长群体的访谈,我们展示了对学校种族化和阶级人口统计的看法如何影响家长对中学的选择。该论文还认为,需要注意“多元文化”和“混合”等术语如何统一应用于非常不同的环境,无论是特定的学校还是当地地区,这表明英国在谈论多元文化时缺乏语言。
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