Why and how to regulate the education market?

Autores/as

  • Christian Maroy Universidad de Louvain

Palabras clave:

regulation, quasi-market, inequality, segregation

Resumen

Since more than a decade, in several countries, education policies enlarge school choice for parents, either thru the promotion of a quasi-market or the flexibilisation of local schools sectors. This article presents the debates about the effects of the promotion of “market”, concerning segregation and inequalities. Beyond the controversies in the literature, it seems that the combination of choice by parents and pupil’s selectionopportunities for schools lead to more segregation and therefore more social inequalities. However, school districts are also unable to avoid these problems. Moreover, it is important to consider the local factors which favour or impinge these trends. Finally, this paper argues that a coordination of the public regulations (metaregulation) could be a way to regulate more efficiently the negative effects of school choice.

Citas

Gorard, S. Taylor, Fitz, J. (2003) Schools, Markets and Choice Policies, London: Routledge Falmer.

Harris, D.N., Herrington, C.D. (2006) Accountability, Standars, and the growing achievement gap: lessons from the past half-century, American Journal of Education, 112, pp. 209-238.

Jessop, B. (2004) Governance and Metagovernance: On Reflexivity, Requisite variety, and

Requisite Irony, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. Disponible en http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/papers/jessop-governance-andmetagovernance.pdf

Lauder, H. Hughes D. (1999) Trading in futures. Why markets in education don’t work?,

Bukingham & Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Maroy, C. (dir.) (2006) École, régulation et marché : une comparaison de six espaces scolaires locaux en Europe, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

Maroy C. et van Zanten A. (2007) Régulation et compétition entre établissements scolaires

dans six espaces scolaires en Europe, Sociologie du Travail, 49, pp. 464-278.

Oberti, M. (2005) Différentiation sociale et scolaire du territoire, Sociétés Contemporaines,

-60, pp. 13-42.

Thrupp, M. (1999) Schools making a difference. Let’s be realistic! Buckingham: Open University Press.

Vandenberghe, V. (1998) L’enseignement en Communauté française de Belgique: un quasi-marché, Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Économique, XXXVII (1), pp. 65-75.

Van Zanten, A. (2001) L’école de la périphérie. Scolarité et ségrégation en banlieue, Paris : Presses Universitaires de France.

Whitty, G. Power, S. Halping D. (1998) Devolution & Choice in Education. The School, the State and the Market, Buckingham-Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Descargas

Publicado

2008-09-01