: Contextuel influence in choosing curriculum pathways in secondary schools : the school effect.

2004

The results of this research highlight the inequal nature of the process of choosing school careers upper secondary schools according to the school attended by the pupils, notably according to the social background within the school. If important social and academic differences appear in the pupils' study choice, they are mainly ratified by the staff (who tend even sometimes to emphasize them). Thus, the choice appears to be an internal process which come under the policy teach school, which consists in part in managing the social background of the pupils by allocating the later more or less equally between the different tracks available.