Education is becoming more competitive - choice in education is now a key issue. This book will help parents, schools, colleges, universities and policy makers understand how education and training markets work. Choosing Futures offers a wide ranging perspective on how young people, and their parents, make choices as they travel through a lifetime of education and training. The authors challenge traditional views of how choices are made of primary school, secondary school, college, university and career, which assume that choices are rational and objective. Instead this book reveals how choices depend upon a range of factors: *young people's personal experiences*individual and family histories*perceptions of education and careers.The book compares choice for 5 to 11 year olds, and for 16 and 18 year olds; drawing out models of the decision making process, and at the same time the consequences on schools, colleges and individuals of 'enhanced choice'.
Author(s): Nichola Foskett, Jane Hemsley-Brown
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 256
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
Choice, decision-making and the education market place......Page 12
Motivation, rationality and the reality of choice......Page 38
Choosing schools: parents and pupils in the market place......Page 62
Choosing independent schools: a parental dilemma?......Page 86
Young people, choice and the further education market place......Page 111
Choosing training pathways at 16+......Page 135
Choosing higher education: reaching for anticipated futures......Page 159
Choice or chance? Career decision-making processes of young people......Page 184
Choosing futures: issues and implications......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 236
Centre for Research in Education Marketing Research Projects......Page 248
Index......Page 251
