[pt] Inserida no contexto dos estudos sociológicos sobre a relação família e escola, esta pesquisa focaliza o processo de escolha do estabelecimento de ensino vivenciado por uma fração de famílias consideradas pertencentes às elites econômicas e culturais. Para identificar os aspectos sócio- culturais embutidos no processo de escolha de escola, foram investigadas 81 famílias cujos filhos foram matriculados em uma tradicional escola confessional do sistema privado de ensino no ano de 2003. Através do questionário auto-administrado aplicado aos pais, foi possível identificar o perfil das famílias quanto ao patrimônio econômico, cultural, social e escolar por elas adquirido. Este principal instrumento de investigação, acrescido de outras fontes de dados, permitiu a identificação dos critérios e estratégias de escolha de escola reveladas por essas famílias, assim como a caracterização do processo de escolha de estabelecimento de ensino por elas vivenciado. Foram consideradas ainda, as expectativas das famílias frente à escolarização dos seus filhos. Para a análise dos dados, as informações obtidas foram cotejadas com parte da literatura da sociologia da educação existente, especialmente, com as tipologias estabelecidas em estudos anteriores sobre o processo de escolha de estabelecimento de ensino, para a classificação dos diferentes grupos familiares, das condutas de escolha de escola e dos estabelecimentos escolares da rede privada de ensino. As considerações finais do estudo apontam, no caso das famílias investigadas, para o sentido da escolarização como estratégia de distinção de classe social, cujas condutas que orientaram a escolha foram influenciadas pelo volume e estrutura dos diferentes tipos de capital das famílias, e possivelmente, pelo ethos escolar.Tais constatações indicam novas práticas familiares na relação estabelecida com as escolas, fomentando a luta concorrencial existente na lógica do mercado educacional, onde os diferentes tipos de escolas estão sendo adequados aos diferentes tipos de famílias. / [en] The present research is part of a wider field, i.e. sociology studies concerning family/school relationship, and it focuses the choice process that a portion of families (part of the Brazilian elite, culturally and economically speaking) experience when sending their children to school. In order to identify the cultural and social aspects present in the choice process the survey included 81 families who enrolled their children in a traditional confessional private school in 2003. Self-filling questionnaires were handed to the parents, and their answers provided the information needed to build a profile of the families, concerning their net worth, and their cultural, educational and social backgrounds. This main methodological tool, as well as other data sources, allowed the identification of the criteria and the strategies used by these families which provided a description of the whole choice process they experience. The families` expectations concerning their children`s level of education were also considered. In order to analyze the data, the information gathered was confronted with part of existing sociology of education literature, especially with typologies that have been established by previous research on the process of choice of schools. It aimed at classifying different family groups, attitudes concerning choice of school and the private education institutes. The final considerations indicate, in the particular case of the families surveyed, that education is part of a strategy of social differentiation. The behavior that oriented their choice was influenced by the structure and bulk of the families budget, and possibly, by the school ethos. These conclusions indicate new practices amongst families in their relationship with the schools, fomenting the competition that is part of the education market, where different types of schools have been striving to fit different types of families.

This diploma thesis deals with an issue of a choice of career and career consultancy at primary schools. In the introduction of a theoretical part the definition of career counselling connected with education system is presented. Further, basic theories of career counselling are introduced. Major part deals with actual empirical findings about the impact on the choice of career and potential positive consequences of systematic career consultancy. Final thesis also presents a conception of career counselling at primary schools as it is enshrined in the Czech law and introduces the structure of career counselling service in the Czech educational system. Empirical part sets a goal in charting the current state of career counselling at primary schools in Ústí nad Orlicí district. For this purpose, a mapping questionnaire on a sample of pupils of the ninth grade and a semi-structured dialogue with educational consultants of primary schools was used. The aim of this thesis is to define the factors that pupils evaluate as significant in the choice of a further education. Simultaneously, it contains the assessment of current practice of career counselling at primary schools by educational consultants, which enables us to compare the both points of view and gain a complex view of the current practice of...

My research interest in the upcoming paper is the increased need for promotion of schools. I. e. the individual school´s needs to be able to show its existence, in the huge flow and availability of information; schools and universities, study circles, streamed lectures on the Internet, public schools and private schools, different educational directions, et cetera. The schools’ needs to market itself, make good PR and sell their pedagogical idea, and that has become increasingly important.   My purpose is to clarify how music teachers, in the Swedish primary and secondary school, skills and competences are used in outreach activities within but also outside, the school premises. With outreach activities I mean here the kind of official events that have cultural, tradition-bearing moves and where music teachers often have an additional responsibility for implementation, such as Speech Days, Lucia celebrations, “Open School days”, PTA meetings, et cetera.   Research issues 1) What is the significance of outreach activities expressed by music teachers and principals?   2) Which motives are expressed by the two occupation categories when it comes to outreach activities arranged by the school and how they can be related to the current governing documents?   3) To what extent are these activities and music teacher's work with these integrated in music as a school subject?   Results Outreach music activities play a big role in getting students to develop and demonstrate the basic knowledge and the breadth to which they dedicated themselves through the school’s music classes. As a consequence of that all students have been able to assimilate basic music skills outreach activities has been important to show the excellence of the pupils which they are happy to show, both for their own lifelong and life-wide learning and the school's ability to do PR for it’s well-functioning music activities. This allows the school to continue the good pedagogical work when new students secure the economic basis for the future. If outreach activities are used to give students control over their learning in the right way, it can additionally help to ensure that students stimulates to take an active part in school development at various levels, locally, nationally and internationally.   Music Teachers' motives for carrying out outreach activities varied between unequivocally curriculum-related goals, didactic goals at the individual level as well as PR and marketing-related reasons, with strong emphasis on the curriculum. A concrete motive for music teachers in the study was that all outreach activities are considered as good opportunities to "jam" with students, to gain experience through music situations similar to those that you can meet as a professional musician in the future, such as "master-apprentice" meetings. The strongest motive was to conduct outreach activities in relation to the substance in the curriculum, such as solo singing, choir, accompaniment, melody playing and to reflect on and discuss the importance of music, different genres, sound engineering, et cetera. For a couple of the principals the promotion of the school was of greater importance than for the others. They simply had to be so well performing that they each fall semester can attract a new first year class with students. Several of the principals in the study made a connection between the schools’ outreach activities and its work with values.   There was an almost unanimous agreement that outreach music activities are an integral and very important part of school music education, both among music teachers and principals. However, there were a couple of principals and even music teachers, who argued that the very large outreach activities were not optimally timed opportunities for assessment. Especially the music teachers in the study were in this respect divided into half’s, where the majority on the contrary argued that outreach activities are very important formative and stimulating opportunities for assessment. Even in this respect, i. e. when it comes to how outreach activities can be integrated in music as a school subject, strong arguments can be made to have requirements of curriculum related issues like singing, ensemble playing, accompaniment, melody playing, sound engineering and really almost everything in the curricula.   A polarization or loyalty conflict between prioritizing curriculum-related goals or PR did not seem to be verifiable, empirical data rather told that the participants in this study saw it as two activities in symbiosis. In contrast, some of the experienced music teachers spoke about the importance of "peeling off" unnecessary and costly project, and instead prioritize things that create greater opportunities for the student's musical learning.