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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Part I: School Choice, Globalisation and the Commodification of Education: Choosers and Losers......Page 18
Neo-liberalism and the political debate......Page 20
Advantages and disadvantages to school choice......Page 25
Private and faith schooling......Page 30
Choice, effectiveness and motivation......Page 34
Social class and risk......Page 40
Choice and geographical location......Page 43
Choice and segregation......Page 45
School admissions policies......Page 50
Factors which influence individual and group parental choice......Page 53
Choice and the psychodynamic of moving from primary to secondary school......Page 62
Gender and the transition to secondary school......Page 66
Global trade agreements and their effect on education......Page 70
The changing agency of the state in education......Page 73
The rise of 'performativity' in the United Kingdom......Page 82
Between regulation and the free market: demarchical control......Page 85
Between regulation and the free market: mobility and the leisure curriculum......Page 87
Globalisation and school improvement......Page 88
Globalisation, managing change and teacher professionalism......Page 90
The General Agreement on Trade in Services......Page 96
The emergence of state-market partnerships......Page 99
The calculus of choice and risk......Page 102
Hierarchies and local markets in schooling......Page 110
Voter support for marketisation and competition in education......Page 112
Quasi-markets in education: competition and cooperation......Page 117
The impact of marketisation on student attainment......Page 122
The dynamics of local competition......Page 128
Headteachers' perceptions of competition and student attainment......Page 129
Competition and curriculum diversity......Page 131
Assumptions about choice and school organisations......Page 135
Education triage and school markets......Page 139
School choice and school closure......Page 141
The practice of school headship in the education marketplace......Page 142
School choice and the role of headteachers......Page 145
Local education authorities and regulation......Page 146
The self-selection of pupils between schools......Page 149
Schools and employers under marketisation......Page 151
Part II: Adapting Sen's Theory of Capability to School Choice......Page 158
Social choice......Page 160
The meaning of utility......Page 163
Well-being and advantage......Page 164
Commodity and capability......Page 165
Approaches to utility......Page 169
Functionings......Page 172
Valuation......Page 175
The measurement of well-being......Page 176
The aggregation of well-being......Page 180
The Impossibility problem......Page 181
The problem of using the same valuation function......Page 183
The evaluation of advantage......Page 184
10 Asset-Mapping......Page 187
Freedom and agency in school communities......Page 189
Deficiency and empowering assessments......Page 192
Notes......Page 196
References and Further Reading......Page 209
B......Page 250
C......Page 251
D......Page 252
E......Page 253
G......Page 254
K......Page 255
M......Page 256
P......Page 257
S......Page 259
U......Page 262
W......Page 263
Z......Page 264