Making Sense of School Choice : Politics, Policies, and Practice Under Conditions of Cultural Diversity

Making Sense of School Choice explains why school choice fails to deliver on its promise to meet the needs of culturally diverse populations, even in one of the world's most marketized education systems. Windle offers fresh insights into the transnational processes involved in producing educational inequalities. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Tables 8 Acknowledgments 10 1 Choice, Equity, and Diversity 11 2 School Choice as Policy Regime and Cultural Ideal 33 3 Socially Restricted Choice in Multicultural Neighborhoods 56 4 Socially Exposed Schooling: The Majority Experience 86 5 The Meaning of Choice for Schools: Curriculum and Market Hierarchies 105 6 The Many Lives of School Choice: Common Sense, Coercion, and Control 126 7 Toward Democratic Schooling 151 Appendix: Research Methods and Data Sources 168 Notes 170 References 172 Index 192 Front Matter....Pages i-ix Choice, Equity, and Diversity....Pages 1-22 School Choice as Policy Regime and Cultural Ideal....Pages 23-45 Socially Restricted Choice in Multicultural Neighborhoods....Pages 47-76 Socially Exposed Schooling: The Majority Experience....Pages 77-95 The Meaning of Choice for Schools: Curriculum and Market Hierarchies....Pages 97-117 The Many Lives of School Choice: Common Sense, Coercion, and Control....Pages 119-143 Toward Democratic Schooling....Pages 145-161 Back Matter....Pages 163-189 Why is choosing a school an urgent and self-defining task for some, and virtually meaningless for others? How is it possible that most parents contemplate only a single educational option in even the world's most marketized education system? Making Sense of School Choice provides an analysis of the global rise of neoliberal education reform