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Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L) - Softcover

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Walford, Geoffrey

 
9780415753050: Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415753058 ISBN 13: 9780415753050
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools, paying attention to the ways in which parents can purchase privilege for their children through attendance at such schools. He argues that the privatized system is kept under tight control if a growth in social and educational inequality and a deepening of social class and ethnic group division is to be avoided.

The book is unique in combining an account of private schools in Britain with an examination of the process of privatization.

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Geoffrey Walford

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415753058
ISBN 13 
9780415753050
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
152