School Choice and Student Well-Being Opportunity and Capability in Education

, by Kelly, Anthony

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ISBN: 9780230549265 | 0230549268
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/15/2007

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This book is review of research in the area of School Choice and adapts Sen's theory of Capability to develop a more complex theoretical framework for understanding education markets.

List of Tables and Figures	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
School Choice, Globalisation and the Commodification of Education: Choosers and Losers
School Choice: An Overview	p. 3
Neo-liberalism and the political debate	p. 3
Advantages and disadvantages to school choice	p. 8
Private and faith schooling	p. 13
Choice, effectiveness and motivation	p. 17
Social class and risk	p. 23
Choice and geographical location	p. 26
Choice and segregation	p. 28
School Choice and Transition	p. 33
School admissions policies	p. 33
Factors which influence individual and group parental choice	p. 36
Choice and the psychodynamic of moving from primary to secondary school	p. 45
Gender and the transition to secondary school	p. 49
School Choice and Globalisation	p. 53
Global trade agreements and their effect on education	p. 53
The changing agency of the state in education	p. 56
The rise of 'performativity' in the United Kingdom	p. 65
Between regulation and the free market: demarchical control	p. 68
Between regulation and the free market: mobility and the leisure curriculum	p. 70
Globalisation and school improvement	p. 71
Globalisation, managing change and teacher professionalism	p. 73
School Choice and Marketisation	p. 79
The General Agreement on Trade in Services	p. 79
The emergence of state-market partnerships	p. 82
The calculus of choice and risk	p. 85
Hierarchies and local markets in schooling	p. 93
Voter support for marketisation and competition in education	p. 95
School Choice, Competition and Performance	p. 100
Quasi-markets in education: competition and cooperation	p. 100
The impact of marketisation on student attainment	p. 105
The dynamics of local competition	p. 111
Headteachers' perceptions of competition and student attainment	p. 112
Competition and curriculum diversity	p. 114
Actualising Choice in Schools and Communities	p. 118
Assumptions about choice and school organisations	p. 118
Education triage and school markets	p. 122
School choice and school closure	p. 124
The practice of school headship in the education marketplace	p. 125
School choice and the role of headteachers	p. 128
Local education authorities and regulation	p. 129
The self-selection of pupils between schools	p. 132
Schools and employers under marketisation	p. 134
Adapting Sen's Theory of Capability to School Choice
Well-Being and Capability	p. 141
Social choice	p. 143
The meaning of utility	p. 146
Well-being and advantage	p. 147
Commodity and capability	p. 148
Utility and Functionings	p. 152
Approaches to utility	p. 152
Functionings	p. 155
Valuation	p. 158
The measurement of well-being	p. 159
Aggregation and Evaluation	p. 163
The aggregation of well-being	p. 163
The Impossibility problem	p. 154
The problem of using the same valuation function	p. 166
The evaluation of advantage	p. 167
Asset-Mapping	p. 170
Freedom and agency in school communities	p. 172
Deficiency and empowering assessments	p. 175
Notes	p. 179
References and Further Reading	p. 192
Index	p. 233
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