{"title":"Open Door Events: Positioning schools in urban post-compulsory education markets","authors":"Marta Curran, A. Castejón, M. Manzano","doi":"10.1177/14749041221099738","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to explore the role of open-door events as key institutional devices to position schools in local education markets. The paper draws on data from a qualitative study based on observations in 25 open-door events in secondary schools in the city of Barcelona. The findings show, on the one hand, how promotional actions are mediated by a school’s position in the local hierarchy and by objectively unequal features in terms of the type of ownership, social composition and programs offered. On the other hand, the findings reveal how, from these unequal positions, schools display different logics of action aimed at providing information about their status among families and students from different social backgrounds. Overall, the paper presents a typology of schools that contributes to a better understanding of the hierarchy of the local education markets in the transition to upper secondary education.","PeriodicalId":47336,"journal":{"name":"European Educational Research Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"798 - 813"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Educational Research Journal","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041221099738","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The aim of this paper is to explore the role of open-door events as key institutional devices to position schools in local education markets. The paper draws on data from a qualitative study based on observations in 25 open-door events in secondary schools in the city of Barcelona. The findings show, on the one hand, how promotional actions are mediated by a school’s position in the local hierarchy and by objectively unequal features in terms of the type of ownership, social composition and programs offered. On the other hand, the findings reveal how, from these unequal positions, schools display different logics of action aimed at providing information about their status among families and students from different social backgrounds. Overall, the paper presents a typology of schools that contributes to a better understanding of the hierarchy of the local education markets in the transition to upper secondary education.
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The European Educational Research Journal (EERJ) is a scientific journal interested in the changing landscape of education research across Europe. Education research increasingly crosses the borders of the national through its subjects of study, scholarly collaborations and references. The EERJ publishes education research papers and special issues which include a reflection on how the European context and other related global or regional dynamics shape their educational research topics. The European Educational Research Journal publishes double-blind peer-reviewed papers in special issues and as individual articles. The EERJ reviews submitted papers on the basis of the quality of their argument, the contemporary nature of their work, and the level of ''speaking'' to the European audience. Policy-makers, administrators and practitioners with an interest in European issues are now invited to subscribe. The EERJ publishes peer reviewed articles, essay reviews and research reports (forms of research intelligence across Europe)