School Choice and Student Well-Being

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.

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.

ANTHONY KELLY is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton.

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