Attitudes towards school choice and faith schools in the UK : a question of individual preference or collective interest?
Patrikios, Stratos and Curtice, John (2014) Attitudes towards school choice and faith schools in the UK : a question of individual preference or collective interest? Journal of Social Policy, 43 (3). pp. 517-534. ISSN 0047-2794 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279414000233)
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Abstract
As has been the case in a number of countries, parents in England have increasingly been given the opportunity to choose between different types of schools. Doing so is regarded as a way of meeting individual needs and improving academic standards. Faith-based schools long predate this move towards a more diversified educational system, but have come to be regarded as one of the ways of fulfilling the recent agenda. Drawing on social identity theory, we suggest that attitudes towards faith-based schools reflect social (religious) identities and group interests associated with those identities rather than beliefs about the merits of individual choice. We demonstrate this is the case using data from all four parts of the UK. However, the extent to which attitudes towards faith-based schools are a reflection of religious identities varies across the four parts in line with the structure of the religious economy and educational provision locally. We conclude that rather than reflecting a supposedly a-social concern with choice, support for diversity of educational provision may be rooted instead in collective – and potentially antagonistic - social identities.
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Patrikios, Stratos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8716-1269 and Curtice, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4029-8916;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 46437 Dates: DateEventJuly 2014Published15 April 2014Published Online18 March 2014AcceptedSubjects: Political Science > Political theory
Education > Education (General)
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > ReligionDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 08 Jan 2014 11:38 Last modified: 01 Oct 2024 00:20 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/46437