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School Choice and Student Well-Being Other books by Anthony Kelly BENCHMARKING FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT DECISION MAKING USING GAME THEORY THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL OF SCHOOLS School Choice and Student Well-Being Opportunity and Capability in Education Anthony Kelly © Anthony Kelly 2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-54926-5 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-36170-0 ISBN 978-0-230-59028-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230590281 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.Logging,pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kelly,Anthony,1957– School choice and student well-being:opportunity and capability in education/Anthony Kelly. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. School choice.2. Education–Social aspects. I.Title. LB1027.9.K45 2007 379.1'11—dc22 2007022488 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 To Ann, Jane & Colum This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Tables and Figures x Preface xi Acknowledgements xv 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 vii viii Contents 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 Contents ix 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 164 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 179 References and Further Reading 192 Index 233
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