The option for schooling in university secondary schools in Argentina: school choice between glass ceilings and social closure

Abstract This article revisit the debates about school choice focusing on a group of university high schools in the capital of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. From exploring the sociocultural composition of school fees, we are known to families who attend these prestigious schools and revise discussions on school choice regarding processes of social closure that persist beyond they are state high schools that have a public and open lottery as a method of admission. The methodological approach started from a multiple case study involving the combination of quantitative and qualitative data collection methodologies. Between 2012 and 2016 they were made observations, interviewed in depth 13 central actors to the institutions, made 67 structured interviews to teachers selected randomly and recovered a corpus composed of six institutional documents included information on sociodemographic chips of the students. It is concluded that it is the middle sectors that colonize this fragment of schools.摘要 本文重新审视有关择校（school choice）的学术争论，研究对象为阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯省省会的一批大学附属中学。本研究通过探析学费的社会文化构成，明确了就读这类知名中学的家庭群体，并针对择校议题中关于社会封闭（social closure）进程的讨论进行修正：尽管此类公立中学采用公开摇号作为招生方式，但其持续存在的社会封闭现象并未因此改变。本研究采用多案例研究（multiple case study）方法，结合定量与定性数据收集手段。2012年至2016年间，研究团队开展了实地观察，对13名机构核心参与者进行深度访谈（in-depth interviews），随机选取教师开展67场结构化访谈（structured interviews），并整理得到由6份机构文档构成的语料库（corpus），这些文档包含学生的社会人口学特征信息。研究结论表明，中产阶层占据了这类中学的就读群体。