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Choice, competition, and segregation in a United Kingdom urban education market

Taylor, Christopher Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9146-9167 2009. Choice, competition, and segregation in a United Kingdom urban education market. American Journal of Education 115 (4) , pp. 549-568. 10.1086/599781

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Abstract

There has been a great deal of research into school choice and the education quasi‐market that has dominated compulsory school provision in the United Kingdom since the early 1980s. Much of this research fails to address the context in which processes of choice exist alongside the patterns and outcomes of choice and competition, leading to considerable dispute within UK debates on the impact of school choice. The apparent contradiction can be bridged by focusing on the geographic particularities of the education market at various scales. This article examines one urban education market in the United Kingdom. In mapping the context and patterns of school choice and competition, the article begins to offer new insights into understanding recent trends in social segregation between schools. Such an approach to studying the impact of open enrollment and the marketization of compulsory schooling represents a necessary shift toward the development of a geography of school choice.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
L Education > L Education (General)
Additional Information: Pdf uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0195-6744/ (accessed 21/02/2014).
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 0195-6744
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 30 March 2016
Last Modified: 02 May 2023 15:55
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/25781

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