<p><p>The aim of this study was to identify and analyze why parents choose independent schools for their children. The survey was carried out using a total survey addressed to all parents with children in three independent schools in a medium-sized municipality. Two of the schools have a specially oriented pedagogy, Waldorf and Montessori while the third school has general direction. Parents were asked to answer questionnaires with closed questions and calls for comments. We found three categories of reasons for the choice, namely the educational motives, social motives and availability. The social motives proved to be the most important but also pedagogical reasons had certain significance when parents searched for an independent school. The parents sought from that the public school the child would belong to had shortcomings. A major reason in this regard was that bullying occurred in the past. Comparisons between parents grouped in different ways shows that it is the differences between the parents at the various schools. When parents are grouped by income and education the difference between the groups are very limited. We cannot find that the parents received any information that they have been able to base their choice of school. Choice seems rational, but unfounded.</p></p> / Education, Rational Elections, School Choice, Private Schools, Effective Schools, Neoliberals, Welfare Criticizer, Ideology

The aim of this study was to identify and analyze why parents choose independent schools for their children. The survey was carried out using a total survey addressed to all parents with children in three independent schools in a medium-sized municipality. Two of the schools have a specially oriented pedagogy, Waldorf and Montessori while the third school has general direction. Parents were asked to answer questionnaires with closed questions and calls for comments. We found three categories of reasons for the choice, namely the educational motives, social motives and availability. The social motives proved to be the most important but also pedagogical reasons had certain significance when parents searched for an independent school. The parents sought from that the public school the child would belong to had shortcomings. A major reason in this regard was that bullying occurred in the past. Comparisons between parents grouped in different ways shows that it is the differences between the parents at the various schools. When parents are grouped by income and education the difference between the groups are very limited. We cannot find that the parents received any information that they have been able to base their choice of school. Choice seems rational, but unfounded. / Education, Rational Elections, School Choice, Private Schools, Effective Schools, Neoliberals, Welfare Criticizer, Ideology

Inequities in education have long been the driving force behind school reform movements. In efforts to desegregate schools and offer more equitable education opportunities, more privatized and marketized school systems have emerged. This movement has been referred to as neoliberalism. This term encompasses the individual’s right to make school selections based on their personal preferences or desires. Current school choice research suggests parents seek schools with better resources or curriculum, desire the social connections certain schools can offer them, or select schools based on right fit for their families. Neoliberals argue that schools will be reformed or transformed as a result of changing to meet the needs of their customers. They believe competitive school markets will lead to better education systems. However, outcomes of choice movements have been inconsistent and have not demonstrated that choice has impacted achievement or addressed educational disparities. Some argue that it has further segregated schools and has led to greater inequities, particularly for minority or disadvantaged students. Furthermore, the research suggests that access may be facilitated or hindered by an individual’s cultural or social capital. Conversely, the research on student mobility suggests that minority and disadvantaged student populations are often highly mobile students. Frequent school moves for these student groups are detrimental to their academic success and can affect their school experience on multiple levels. The result is two opposing views on how to best ensure student achievement. One view encourages movement, the other does not. This study examined the use of open-enrollment in highly-mobile, high poverty schools. The findings suggest that a connection between student mobility and use of open-enrollment exists. Additionally, the findings revealed that barriers continue to hinder true choice access and motivations for school choice differs in parents at high-poverty, high-mobility schools. The parents in this study did not exercise choice to improve academic outcomes. This is counter to the intent of school choice. Factors such as safety, happiness and relationships were more valued and sought. Moreover, school movement was often prompted by negative events resulting in situational movement. In these instances, open enrollment was utilized to facilitate a reactionary response instead of being utilized to improve achievement outcomes. Based on the results of this study, an evaluation of current school choice practices, legislation and funding may be necessary to ensure the future success of students when exercising choice opportunities.

<p><p><p>Swedish school system is today victim of facing competition. Today sees the school leadership the students like customers whom they depend to operate their school. But I have asked myself, what will be the new students see and how much this spectacle in both money and time that project will cost for the municipality and school teachers. The question is if whether the school will be better when the competition becomes school or just better marketed? I'm interested in how clearly ideologies emerge in schools brochures if we study them at critically and analytically way.<strong> </strong>I will study how the independent schools present themselves and what ideas they describe. Can we see the ideological arguments that Reagan and Thatcher had in the 80s who proved their controlled Swedish politicians argued in the 90s in the published material from the Swedish Independent schools today? Independent schools can be seen as vanguards in the Swedish school policy. The Neoliberal winds blowing can probably be best reflected by the private sector in pursuit of the student base. At the same time, the independent schools on the side of the ideologies that best describe the Neoliberal doctrine.</p><p>I'm interested in how and how societal change is implemented and how clear ideologies reflected in school materials in their struggle to become winners in the Swedish context of market adjustment. I will be studying the brochures from an ideology critical approach that highlights the ideological formulations that can be traced back to the basic ideology.</p></p></p>

Swedish school system is today victim of facing competition. Today sees the school leadership the students like customers whom they depend to operate their school. But I have asked myself, what will be the new students see and how much this spectacle in both money and time that project will cost for the municipality and school teachers. The question is if whether the school will be better when the competition becomes school or just better marketed? I'm interested in how clearly ideologies emerge in schools brochures if we study them at critically and analytically way. I will study how the independent schools present themselves and what ideas they describe. Can we see the ideological arguments that Reagan and Thatcher had in the 80s who proved their controlled Swedish politicians argued in the 90s in the published material from the Swedish Independent schools today? Independent schools can be seen as vanguards in the Swedish school policy. The Neoliberal winds blowing can probably be best reflected by the private sector in pursuit of the student base. At the same time, the independent schools on the side of the ideologies that best describe the Neoliberal doctrine. I'm interested in how and how societal change is implemented and how clear ideologies reflected in school materials in their struggle to become winners in the Swedish context of market adjustment. I will be studying the brochures from an ideology critical approach that highlights the ideological formulations that can be traced back to the basic ideology.

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It is argued transformation of the individual in citizen that, tied with the social movements, contests the model of the society and if it pledges in its contraregulation, Reflects on the history and the conceptualization of the social movements to come close itself to its transformations in result of economic, technological and ideological the dynamic occured in the world and Brazil. It is argued registration of the social movement of professors in the new social movements, in an analysis that holds the process of globalization and the adhesion of the Brazilian government to the neoliberals, in a movement that culminated with the capture of the education for the capital. It is analyzed change of the nature of the social movements in the shock with the instituted power, and its repercussions in the national education. In the years of lead of the Brazilian military dictatorship they had developed action of active resistance to the regimen, to the step that with its withdrawal and respective volte democracy of the Country, the movements had started to be propositive. In the current government of popular democratic mode, where a former-leader of the syndical movement, one of ours , assumed the presidency of the republic, it has been possible to detect positions conservatives of the social movements of educators. This understanding was possible with the adoption of the historical and dialectic materialism to analyze the contradictions produced for the capitalist society in the present time. The theoretical referential concerning the new social movements was basic to show the flows and refluxes of the social movements of its shock with intuited, concomitantly with the transformations of the civil society and politics commanded by the neoliberal politics. A plurality of the associations of studies and research in education, each one with its specification, that however breaks up the possibility of a common agenda, however organizes this agenda, many times makes impracticable the joint in a central office, weakening the shock with the government. This inquiry consists of more study that show the indifference with that the government deals the education, so important common good for the Brazilian people. It results of this work the considerations of that history is not condescending with the latecomers, the conformed ones, the no critics individuals, the social movements of passive proposals and with the social movements conservatives. The desfiliados social ones need to become citizens, need to emancipate themselves of mooring cables imposed for the ruling classes. Perplexities excited will be able, perhaps, to awake the conscience of classroom of the professors, for had developed class actions in the conflict established with the instituted power, based in solidarity, with sights to the advance in the public education, of quality socially referenced for all and in all the levels / Pesquisa qualitativa com análise de entrevista semi-estruturadas. As categorias estado, poder, democracia, cidadania e intelectual orgânico são analisadas na relação entre o atual estágio da educação brasileira e as ações dos movimentos sociais de educadores no embate com o poder instituído, na luta em favor da qualidade socialmente referenciada da educação pública, em todos os níveis. Discute-se a transformação do indivíduo em sujeito que, vinculado aos movimentos sociais, contesta o modelo da sociedade e se empenha na sua contrarregulação, Reflete-se sobre a história e a conceituação dos movimentos sociais para aproximarse de suas transformações em decorrência das dinâmicas econômicas, tecnológicas e ideológicas ocorridas no mundo e no Brasil. Discute-se a inscrição do movimento social de professores nos novos movimentos sociais, em uma análise que comporta o processo de globalização e da adesão do governo brasileiro ao neoliberalismo, em um movimento que culminou com a captura da educação pelo capital. Analisa-se a mudança da natureza dos movimentos sociais no embate com o poder instituído, e as suas repercussões na educação nacional. Nos anos de chumbo da ditadura militar brasileira desenvolveram ações de resistência ativa ao regime, ao passo que com a sua retirada e respectiva redemocratização do País, os movimentos passaram a ser propositivos. No governo atual de feição democrático popular, em que um exlíder do movimento sindical, um dos nossos , assumiu a presidência da república, tem sido possível detectar posturas conservadoras dos movimentos sociais de educadores. Essa compreensão foi possível com a adoção do materialismo histórico e dialético para analisar as contradições produzidas pela sociedade capitalista na atualidade. O referencial teórico acerca dos novos movimentos sociais foi fundamental para desvelar os fluxos e refluxos dos movimentos sociais no seu embate com o poder instituído, concomitantemente com as transformações da sociedade civil e política capitaneadas pelas políticas neoliberais. A pluralidade das associações de estudos e pesquisa em educação, cada uma com a sua especificidade, que ora fragmenta a possibilidade de uma agenda comum, ora organiza essa agenda, muitas vezes inviabiliza a articulação em uma central, enfraquecendo o embate com o governo. Esta investigação consiste em mais estudo que desvela o descaso com que o governo trata a educação, bem comum tão importante para o povo brasileiro. Resulta desse trabalho as considerações de que a história não é condescendente com os retardatários, com os conformados, com os indivíduos acríticos, com os movimentos sociais de proposições passivas e com os movimentos sociais conservadores. Os desfiliados sociais precisam tornar-se cidadãos, precisam emancipar-se das amarras impostas pelas classes dominantes. As perplexidades suscitadas poderão, talvez, despertar a consciência de classe dos professores, para desenvolveram ações coletivas no conflito estabelecido com o poder instituído, baseadas na solidariedade, com vistas ao avanço na educação pública, de qualidade socialmente referenciada para todos e em todos os níveis.

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It is argued transformation of the individual in citizen that, tied with the social movements, contests the model of the society and if it pledges in its contraregulation, Reflects on the history and the conceptualization of the social movements to come close itself to its transformations in result of economic, technological and ideological the dynamic occured in the world and Brazil. It is argued registration of the social movement of professors in the new social movements, in an analysis that holds the process of globalization and the adhesion of the Brazilian government to the neoliberals, in a movement that culminated with the capture of the education for the capital. It is analyzed change of the nature of the social movements in the shock with the instituted power, and its repercussions in the national education. In the years of lead of the Brazilian military dictatorship they had developed action of active resistance to the regimen, to the step that with its withdrawal and respective volte democracy of the Country, the movements had started to be propositive. In the current government of popular democratic mode, where a former-leader of the syndical movement, one of ours , assumed the presidency of the republic, it has been possible to detect positions conservatives of the social movements of educators. This understanding was possible with the adoption of the historical and dialectic materialism to analyze the contradictions produced for the capitalist society in the present time. The theoretical referential concerning the new social movements was basic to show the flows and refluxes of the social movements of its shock with intuited, concomitantly with the transformations of the civil society and politics commanded by the neoliberal politics. A plurality of the associations of studies and research in education, each one with its specification, that however breaks up the possibility of a common agenda, however organizes this agenda, many times makes impracticable the joint in a central office, weakening the shock with the government. This inquiry consists of more study that show the indifference with that the government deals the education, so important common good for the Brazilian people. It results of this work the considerations of that history is not condescending with the latecomers, the conformed ones, the no critics individuals, the social movements of passive proposals and with the social movements conservatives. The desfiliados social ones need to become citizens, need to emancipate themselves of mooring cables imposed for the ruling classes. Perplexities excited will be able, perhaps, to awake the conscience of classroom of the professors, for had developed class actions in the conflict established with the instituted power, based in solidarity, with sights to the advance in the public education, of quality socially referenced for all and in all the levels / Pesquisa qualitativa com análise de entrevista semi-estruturadas. As categorias estado, poder, democracia, cidadania e intelectual orgânico são analisadas na relação entre o atual estágio da educação brasileira e as ações dos movimentos sociais de educadores no embate com o poder instituído, na luta em favor da qualidade socialmente referenciada da educação pública, em todos os níveis. Discute-se a transformação do indivíduo em sujeito que, vinculado aos movimentos sociais, contesta o modelo da sociedade e se empenha na sua contrarregulação, Reflete-se sobre a história e a conceituação dos movimentos sociais para aproximarse de suas transformações em decorrência das dinâmicas econômicas, tecnológicas e ideológicas ocorridas no mundo e no Brasil. Discute-se a inscrição do movimento social de professores nos novos movimentos sociais, em uma análise que comporta o processo de globalização e da adesão do governo brasileiro ao neoliberalismo, em um movimento que culminou com a captura da educação pelo capital. Analisa-se a mudança da natureza dos movimentos sociais no embate com o poder instituído, e as suas repercussões na educação nacional. Nos anos de chumbo da ditadura militar brasileira desenvolveram ações de resistência ativa ao regime, ao passo que com a sua retirada e respectiva redemocratização do País, os movimentos passaram a ser propositivos. No governo atual de feição democrático popular, em que um exlíder do movimento sindical, um dos nossos , assumiu a presidência da república, tem sido possível detectar posturas conservadoras dos movimentos sociais de educadores. Essa compreensão foi possível com a adoção do materialismo histórico e dialético para analisar as contradições produzidas pela sociedade capitalista na atualidade. O referencial teórico acerca dos novos movimentos sociais foi fundamental para desvelar os fluxos e refluxos dos movimentos sociais no seu embate com o poder instituído, concomitantemente com as transformações da sociedade civil e política capitaneadas pelas políticas neoliberais. A pluralidade das associações de estudos e pesquisa em educação, cada uma com a sua especificidade, que ora fragmenta a possibilidade de uma agenda comum, ora organiza essa agenda, muitas vezes inviabiliza a articulação em uma central, enfraquecendo o embate com o governo. Esta investigação consiste em mais estudo que desvela o descaso com que o governo trata a educação, bem comum tão importante para o povo brasileiro. Resulta desse trabalho as considerações de que a história não é condescendente com os retardatários, com os conformados, com os indivíduos acríticos, com os movimentos sociais de proposições passivas e com os movimentos sociais conservadores. Os desfiliados sociais precisam tornar-se cidadãos, precisam emancipar-se das amarras impostas pelas classes dominantes. As perplexidades suscitadas poderão, talvez, despertar a consciência de classe dos professores, para desenvolveram ações coletivas no conflito estabelecido com o poder instituído, baseadas na solidariedade, com vistas ao avanço na educação pública, de qualidade socialmente referenciada para todos e em todos os níveis.