Решение семей о смене школы: контексты выбора

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2024. № 3(181). С. 179–203.

Zair-Bek S. I., Mertsalova T., Сенина Н. А.

The authors discuss contextual factors for the parental choice when changing a child’s school. The data from the online survey of schoolchildren’s parents, conducted as part of the Economics of Education Monitoring in 2020/2021, shows that the choice when changing schools is associated with a complex of contextual factors, such as location, family’s and child’s characteristics, as well as specifics of the educational institution. The behavior of families and their motivation for changing schools are varied and depend on a number of objective and subjective factors that can produce various combinations, determining the reasons for changing schools. Those may various external circumstances or the educational aspirations and ambitions of families. In any case, changing schools becomes a turning point in a child’s life, while the choice is usually made by parents. It has been revealed that the change of school as a crucial event is associated with factors that are stressful for the family and the child as the process of changing schools is often combined with the changes in place of residence, in the child’s educational and social environment, in the requirements imposed by the new school on his/her behavior and diligence, and the level of educational results. Differences, including the parents’ satisfaction with their child’s current school, have been traced between those parents who changed their child’s school just once and those who did it more than once. Parents of students who changed schools repeatedly demonstrated the highest level of dissatisfaction, as well as the greatest willingness to change school again.

Keywords: образовательные траектории, turning points, educational trajectories, school choice, смена школы, secondary school choice, school mobility, changing schools, contexts in education, educational transitions, вторичный выбор школы, школьная мобильность, родительский выбор, контексты в образовании, поворотное решение

Publication based on the results of: Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations (2021)