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List of Tables and Figures x
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
School Choice, Globalisation and the Commodification of Education: Choosers and Losers
School Choice: An Overview 3
Neo-liberalism and the political debate 3
Advantages and disadvantages to school choice 8
Private and faith schooling 13
Choice, effectiveness and motivation 17
Social class and risk 23
Choice and geographical location 26
Choice and segregation 28
School Choice and Transition 33
School admissions policies 33
Factors which influence individual and group parental choice 36
Choice and the psychodynamic of moving from primary to secondary school 45
Gender and the transition to secondary school 49
School Choice and Globalisation 53
Global trade agreements and their effect on education 53
The changing agency of the state in education 56
The rise of 'performativity' in the United Kingdom 65
Between regulation and the free market: demarchical control 68
Between regulation and the free market: mobility and the leisure curriculum 70
Globalisation and school improvement 71
Globalisation, managing change and teacher professionalism 73
School Choice and Marketisation 79
The General Agreement on Trade in Services 79
The emergence of state-market partnerships 82
The calculus of choice and risk 85
Hierarchies and local markets in schooling 93
Voter support for marketisation and competition in education 95
School Choice, Competition and Performance 100
Quasi-markets in education: competition and cooperation 100
The impact of marketisation on student attainment 105
The dynamics of local competition 111
Headteachers' perceptions of competition and student attainment 112
Competition and curriculum diversity 114
Actualising Choice in Schools and Communities 118
Assumptions about choice and school organisations 118
Education triage and school markets 122
School choice and school closure 124
The practice of school headship in the education marketplace 125
School choice and the role of headteachers 128
Local education authorities and regulation 129
The self-selection of pupils between schools 132
Schools and employers under marketisation 134
Adapting Sen's Theory of Capability to School Choice
Well-Being and Capability 141
Social choice 143
The meaning of utility 146
Well-being and advantage 147
Commodity and capability 148
Utility and Functionings 152
Approaches to utility 152
Functionings 155
Valuation 158
The measurement of well-being 159
Aggregation and Evaluation 163
The aggregation of well-being 163
The Impossibility problem 154
The problem of using the same valuation function 166
The evaluation of advantage 167
Asset-Mapping 170
Freedom and agency in school communities 172
Deficiency and empowering assessments 175
Notes 179
References and Further Reading 192
Index 233
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