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

by A. Kelly

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230549265
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/16/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	247
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

ANTHONY KELLY is Professor in the School of Education, University of Southampton, UK, and is editor of Education, Knowledge and Economy. He specialises in developing theory in the areas of school improvement, effectiveness, leadership and policy analysis. His most recent books are Benchmarking for School Improvement, Decision Making Using Game Theory and The Intellectual Capital of Schools.

Table of Contents

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