CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Yazdani, Fatemeh |
|---|---|
| Title | How privatized schooling is operated from below |
| Summary | This thesis takes the context-specific neoliberalism in education as an entry point to inquire into the networks of relationships involved in social reproduction through privatized schooling. I ask beyond the neoliberal regulations that the government imposes on the privatized education, how the embedded neoliberal rationality in the institutional and individual levels is operating from below. I specifically look into the bilateral relationships between supply and demand sides of the choice system of education provision to explore the diverse tendencies involved in it, including neoliberalism, Islamic technocracy, and class middle-class, whose advantages highly depend on the formation of a coalition. The thesis is based on research conducted in Tehran, from late September 2019 until early December 2019, consisted of 27 interviews with parents, school principals, and other school staff. Further, it is supplemented by non-participant observation in two female private high schools. Drawing on three months’ fieldwork, I explain the complexity of the school choice process from both sides of the deal; education provider and education consumer. On the one hand, I argue that how the school management board narrows down the composition of staff and students to maintain and present the school’s distinctive institutional habitus. On the other hand, I describe the parental school choice, which operates as a class strategy safeguarding the privileged social positions and possessed capital of the family while ensuring the prospect attainment of the student, academically and professionally. Thus, this thesis sheds new light on the relational networks involved in the choice system of education provision that considerably contribute to the perpetuation and reproduction of social inequality. |
| Supervisor | Geva, Dorit & Cucu, Alina-Sandra |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/yazdani_fatemeh.pdf |
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