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

by Anthony Kelly

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349361704
• ISBN13: 9781349361700
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"