School Choice and Student Well-Being

Opportunity and Capability in Education
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-54926-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

This review of research in school choice adapts Sen's theory of Capability developing a more complex theoretical framework for understanding education markets. This gives those most affected by the perceived failure of public education a better explication of the tension between the rhetoric of public good and the reality of everyday disadvantage.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelly, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures Preface: PART 1: SCHOOL CHOICE, GLOBALIZATION AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF EDUCATION: CHOOSERS AND LOSERS School Choice: An Overview School Choice and Transition School Choice and Globalization School Choice and Marketisation School Choice, Competition and Performance Actualising Choice in Schools and Communities PART 2: ADAPTING SEN'S THEORY OF CAPABILITY TO EDUCATION Well-Being and Capability Utility and Functionings Aggregation and Evaluation Asset-Mapping Bibliography and Further Reading Index

Über Autor(innen)

ANTHONY KELLY is Professor in the School of Education, University of Southampton, UK, and is editor of . He specialises in developing theory in the areas of school improvement, effectiveness, leadership and policy analysis. His most recent books are , and .