Mousumi, M.A.;
Kusakabe, T.;
(2022)
Private school choice among Muslim parents: the public–private school decision in Delhi, India.
London Review of Education
, 20
(1)
pp. 1-15.
10.14324/LRE.20.1.25.
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Abstract
This article examines Muslim parents’ private school choice, their understanding of public–private schooling and how they navigate the choice between fee-free public schools and fee-charging private schools. This article draws on qualitative data from open-ended, semi-structured interviews with 38 parents from Muslim-majority areas in Delhi, India. The findings show that parents choose private schools for several reasons, such as their proximity, discipline, emphasis on Islamic teachings and values, safety and caring teachers. The analysis suggests that structural and social factors influence and construct parents’ choice of a particular school. The neighbourhood where they reside, their minority status, their socio-economic and demographic profile, and the type of schools that are available to them influence their decision making.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Private school choice among Muslim parents: the public–private school decision in Delhi, India |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/LRE.20.1.25 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.20.1.25 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022, Manjuma Akhtar Mousumi and Tatsuya Kusakabe. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | school choice, public–private schooling decision, Delhi, India |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10155392 |
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