School Choice and Student Well-being: Opportunity and Capability in Education »

ANTHONY KELLY is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton.

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     x
Preface     xi
Acknowledgements     xv
School Choice, Globalisation and the Commodification of Education: Choosers and Losers
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
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
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
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
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
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
Adapting Sen's Theory of Capability to School Choice
Well-Being and Capability     141
Social choice     143
The meaning of utility     146
Well-being and advantage     147
Commodity and capability     148
Utility and Functionings     152
Approaches to utility     152
Functionings     155
Valuation     158
The measurement of well-being     159
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
Asset-Mapping     170
Freedom and agency in school communities     172
Deficiency and empowering assessments     175
Notes     179
References and Further Reading     192
Index     233