Schulwahl und sozio-kulturelle Passung. Einzelschulwahl, Schulqualit?t und Schultr?gerspezifik unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Schulen in freier Tr?gerschaft

Over the past ten years, the German school system has seen a continuous increase in private schools, although the reasons for the attractiveness of private schools are largely unexplained. The study starts at this point. On the one hand, it examines the motives of parents whose children attend private attending schools, against the background of perceived characteristics of school quality and to compare them with the school choice motives of parents whose children attend a state school. On the other hand, with the focus on the very heterogeneous field of private schools, these choices are located in a typology of fit with specific private school providers. Based on theories of action of rational choice on the one hand and Bourdieu's concept of habitus on the other, the question is asked whether, how and why parents choose specific schools. The following questions are thus central:

Which parents or which milieus choose private or public schools for their children and which do not?
Which types of private school are brought into a fit with which habitual and socio-cultural characteristics of the parents or milieu?

How do the different types of private schools/providers of private schools, for their part, create and shape a fit with the parents/children or the social milieu ('double fit')?

Against the background of competition and segregation, are such processes of fit also visible in public schools, which are promoted by the expansion of private schools, and what effects result from this for the entire school system?

The project will focus on the individual school choice in the private and public primary school sector in an exemplary selected German federal state (Berlin). Methodologically, quantitative and qualitative methods of interviewing both parents and school administrators will be applied.