Parental Choice in South African High Schools: An urban Cape Town Case Study

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dc.contributor.advisorHerman, Harold
dc.contributor.authorDu Toit, Sedik
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Education
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-18T13:46:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-28T08:03:34Z
dc.date.available2009/11/12 14:16
dc.date.available2009/11/12
dc.date.available2013-11-18T13:46:20Z
dc.date.available2024-05-28T08:03:34Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionPhilosophiae Doctor - PhDen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examines how families judge and choose high schools. The review of literature relating to school choice provides a theoretical framework for the study. The review includes an international perspective including both developed countries such as United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, England and Wales, the Netherlands, Scotland and Sweden, and developing countries including India, Chile, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritania, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and South Africa. The context within which school choice occurs in South Africa is examined. This context includes continued influence of Apartheid policies and current legislation including the South African Schools Act, The Admission Policy for Ordinary Schools Act and the Norms and Standards for Schools Funding. The literature review includes a critical analysis of the research, both Local and International, which addresses questions as to which factors are considered when judging and choosing schools, who makes the choice school, when the choice of school is made and which sources of information inform the choice of school. The empirical study examines the process of high school choice in urban Cape Town. The group areas Act and other Apartheid policies have created a situation where the respondents have a large number of high schools from which to chose. The selected area reflects diversity in Socio-Economic status, including both privately owned homes and council rental flats and houses. The study is limited to English medium or dual medium schools in the area. It includes both co-ed and single gender schools.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/15355
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectSchool choiceen_US
dc.subjectParental choiceen_US
dc.subjectEducational equityen_US
dc.subjectMarket based reformsen_US
dc.subjectQuasi-marketsen_US
dc.subjectPupil migration marketisationen_US
dc.subjectPrimary to high school educational marketsen_US
dc.titleParental Choice in South African High Schools: An urban Cape Town Case Studyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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