Empowerment and State Education: Rights of Choice and Participation
Empowerment and State Education: Rights of Choice and Participation
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赋权与国家教育：选择权和参与权
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2230.2005.00567.x
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2005
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N. Harris
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作者：
N. Harris
关于父母参与孩子在学校的教育有两个不同的论述。人们关心的是通常所说的“家长权力”，它的基础是赋予家长一定程度的选择权和参与子女教育的权利，这是从 1980 年《教育法》开始的国家教育治理立法变革的一个特点，部分依赖于基于消费主义和自由权利的观念。另一个重点是家庭与学校的伙伴关系理想，即家长和学校有义务相互支持，以实现孩子的潜力。工党和保守党 2005 年大选活动中都提出了“赋予”父母权力的提案。但对公民概念很重要的社会权利，例如教育权利，却往往很薄弱。本文的结论是，在过去 25 年里，父母个人或集体的权力几乎没有被割让，而且至少在选择权方面，任何进一步的赋权似乎都是不现实的。此外，父母参与的主要机制，特别是自1997年以来，一直是父母责任的强制执行，这是“公民技术”的一种形式。儿童拥有参与和选择权的程度也被考虑在内。
Two separate discourses surround the involvement of parents in their children's education in schools. One is concerned with what is often referred to as 'parent power,' based on the conferment on parents of rights to a degree of choice and participation in respect of their children's education, a feature of legislative changes to the governance of state education that started with the Education Act 1980 and which, in part, rests on consumerist and liberal rights based notions. The other focuses on the home-school partnership ideal in which parents and schools have obligations to support each other in realising children's potential. Labour and Conservative 2005 general election campaigns included proposals to 'empower' parents. But social rights such as those in education, which are important to notions of citizenship, tend to be weak. This article concludes that over the past 25 years little power has been ceded to parents, individually or collectively, and that, in the case of rights of choice at least, any further empowerment seems unrealistic. Moreover, the principal mechanism of parental involvement, particularly since 1997, has been the enforcement of parental responsibility, a form of 'technology of citizenship'. The extent to which children hold participation and choice rights is also considered.