ABSTRACT The global establishing of school choice has often and convincingly been criticised in terms of social inequality because parents have very different access to resources to enforce their expectations and demands as ‘costumers’. What is less discussed in the literature is the perspective of the ‘providers’: Do schools have to give up their position of predominance towards parents, when the single school becomes dependent on the parents’ choice and decisions? The contribution explores the viewpoint of providers of primary school education in Germany. This may be particularly instructive as school choice is a rather new phenomenon in Germany. By focusing on a selection of three contrasting interviews with school leaders, representing different positions on the educational ‘market’, we show that only in a very fragmented and precarious sense reference is made to the concept of parents as ‘customers’.

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父母是“顾客”？学校教育“提供者”的视角。来自德国的案例研究

摘要 学校选择的全球建立经常在社会不平等方面受到令人信服的批评，因为作为“顾客”，父母在获取资源方面有非常不同的途径来实现他们的期望和要求。文献中较少讨论的是“提供者”的观点：当单一学校变得依赖家长的选择和决定时，学校是否必须放弃对家长的主导地位？这篇文章探讨了德国小学教育提供者的观点。这可能特别有启发性，因为学校选择在德国是一个相当新的现象。通过专注于对代表教育“市场”不同立场的学校领导的三个对比访谈，