Synopses & Reviews
School Choice and Student Well-Being is a 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. It is a timely contestation. Those for whom public education is a necessity are also those most adversely affected by its perceived failure, a for them, the tension between the rhetoric of the public good and the actualité of everyday disadvantage, between doctrine and reality, deserves better explication.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
ANTHONY KELLY is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton.
Table of Contents
Preface:
Amartya Sen * 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 * Further Reading * Index