Parental choice? : a critical reconsideration of choice and the debate about choice

• Main Author: Thomas, P. L. 1961- (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2010.
• Series: Critical constructions.
• Subjects: School choice > United States.; Education > Parent participation > United States.; Education > Inclusive Education.; Funding of education and student finance.; Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806617234
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-091-7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 191 pages)

Education has rarely been absent from local and national public discourse. Throughout the history of modern education spanning more than a century, we have as a culture lamented the failures of public schooling, often making such claims based on assumptions instead of any nuanced consideration of th...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain: A critical guide to education, research, and the politics of it all
• Chapter 2. Education as political football: What we know (and don't know) about school choice and accountability
• Chapter 3. Seeing education again for the first time, or school isn't what it used to be...or is it?
• Chapter 4. The child in society, the child at home, the child at school
• Chapter 5. Caught between our children and testing, testing, testing
• Chapter 6. Parental choice? A postformal response. Conclusion
• References
• About the author.