School choice and student well-being: opportunity and capability in education

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ContentsList of Tables and FiguresPreface

PART I: School choice, globalisation and the commodification of education: choosers and losers

Chapter 1: School choice: an overviewNeo-liberalism and the political debateAdvantages and disadvantages to school choicePrivate and faith schoolingChoice, effectiveness and motivationSocial class and riskChoice and geographical locationChoice and segregation

Chapter 2: School choice and transitionSchool admissions policiesFactors which influence individual and group parental choiceChoice and the psychodynamic of moving from primary to secondary school Gender and the transition to secondary school

Chapter 3: School choice and globalisationGlobal trade agreements and their effect on educationThe changing agency of the state in educationThe rise of ‘performativity’ in the United KingdomBetween regulation and the free market: demarchical controlBetween regulation and the free market: mobility and the leisure curriculumGlobalisation and school improvementGlobalisation, managing change and teacher professionalism

Chapter 4: School choice and marketisationThe General Agreement on Trade in ServicesThe emergence of state-market partnershipsThe calculus of choice and riskHierarchies and local markets in schooling Voter support for marketisation and competition in education

Chapter 5: School choice, competition and performanceQuasi-markets in education: competition and cooperationThe impact of marketisation on student attainmentThe dynamics of local competition. Headteachers’ perceptions of competition and student attainment Competition and curriculum diversity

Chapter 6: Actualising choice in schools and communitiesAssumptions about choice and school organisationsEducation triage and school marketsSchool choice and school closureThe practice of school headship in the education marketplaceSchool choice and the role of headteachersLocal education authorities and regulation of the marketThe self-selection of pupils between schools Schools and employers under marketisation

PART II: Adapting Sen’s theory of capability to education

Chapter 7: Well-being and capabilitySocial choiceThe meaning of utilityWell-being and advantageCommodity and capability

Chapter 8: Utility and functioningsApproaches to utilityFunctioningsValuationThe measurement of well-being

Chapter 9: Aggregation and evaluationThe aggregation of well-beingThe Impossibility ProblemThe problem of using the same valuation functionThe evaluation of advantage

Chapter 10: Asset-mappingFreedom and agency in school communitiesDeficiency and empowering assessments