Choosing Secondary Schools
Contexts and Concepts: Parental Choice or Chosen Parents?; Choice of Research Design Characteristics of the Children and their Families; Who makes the Choice - Mothers, Fathers, Children or Altogether?; Parents' Appreciation of Procedures about School Transfer; Parents' Reasons for Choice of Preferred Secondary School; 'Discipline' and Parents' rejection of Certain Schools; Choice in Broader Context of Family Life: Memories, Attitudes, Hope and Expectations; The Pupils' Stories of Choice; Conclusions: Choice, Control and Compromise.