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School choice and student well-being : opportunity and capability in education / Anthony Kelly.
Van Pelt Library LB1027.9 .K45 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Anthony, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School choice.
- Education--Social aspects.
- Education.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- Our understanding of school choice and its impact on student well-being is under-theorised, and research is inconclusive in respect of the theoretical complexities involved in the way choice is offered, understood and actualised within families. Having a choice between a poor school and a good school, whereas previously there was only a good school, does not increase well-being. And what use is the freedom to attend any school for those without the wherewithal to organise family life around travel? School Choice and Student Well-Being attempts to construct a better understanding of these issues and their relationship to choice and well-being. Part is an up-to-date and comprehensive review of research on choice, globalisation and the commodification of education. Part II describes and adapts Sen's theory of capability to choice in schooling. The book comes at an important juncture in the provision of public education in developed countries, as schools struggle to provide the range and quality of education demanded by parents and needed by students, and governments, facing the prospect of societal and economic decline as a result of inadequate public schooling, rush to action.
- Contents:
- Part I School Choice, Globalisation and the Commodification of Education: Choosers and Losers
- 1 School Choice: An Overview 3
- Neo-liberalism and the political debate 3
- Advantages and disadvantages to school choice 8
- Private and faith schooling 13
- Choice, effectiveness and motivation 17
- Social class and risk 23
- Choice and geographical location 26
- Choice and segregation 28
- 2 School Choice and Transition 33
- School admissions policies 33
- Factors which influence individual and group parental choice 36
- Choice and the psychodynamic of moving from primary to secondary school 45
- Gender and the transition to secondary school 49
- 3 School Choice and Globalisation 53
- Global trade agreements and their effect on education 53
- The changing agency of the state in education 56
- The rise of 'performativity' in the United Kingdom 65
- Between regulation and the free market: demarchical control 68
- Between regulation and the free market: mobility and the leisure curriculum 70
- Globalisation and school improvement 71
- Globalisation, managing change and teacher professionalism 73
- 4 School Choice and Marketisation 79
- The General Agreement on Trade in Services 79
- The emergence of state-market partnerships 82
- The calculus of choice and risk 85
- Hierarchies and local markets in schooling 93
- Voter support for marketisation and competition in education 95
- 5 School Choice, Competition and Performance 100
- Quasi-markets in education: competition and cooperation 100
- The impact of marketisation on student attainment 105
- The dynamics of local competition 111
- Headteachers' perceptions of competition and student attainment 112
- Competition and curriculum diversity 114
- 6 Actualising Choice in Schools and Communities 118
- Assumptions about choice and school organisations 118
- Education triage and school markets 122
- School choice and school closure 124
- The practice of school headship in the education marketplace 125
- School choice and the role of headteachers 128
- Local education authorities and regulation 129
- The self-selection of pupils between schools 132
- Schools and employers under marketisation 134
- Part II Adapting Sen's Theory of Capability to School Choice
- 7 Well-Being and Capability 141
- Social choice 143
- The meaning of utility 146
- Well-being and advantage 147
- Commodity and capability 148
- 8 Utility and Functionings 152
- Approaches to utility 152
- Functionings 155
- Valuation 158
- The measurement of well-being 159
- 9 Aggregation and Evaluation 163
- The aggregation of well-being 163
- The Impossibility problem 154
- The problem of using the same valuation function 166
- The evaluation of advantage 167
- 10 Asset-Mapping 170
- Freedom and agency in school communities 172
- Deficiency and empowering assessments 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230549268
- 9780230549265
- OCLC:
- 124951105
- Online:
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- Publisher description
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