Are Quasi-markets in Education what the B ritish Public Wants?
Are Quasi-markets in Education what the B ritish Public Wants?
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教育准市场是英国公众想要的吗？
DOI：
10.1111/spol.12005
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Exley S
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作者：
Exley S
在关于准市场外在成功的非决定性证据的背景下，学校选择和教育竞争的政策辩护经常讨论消费者选择的内在价值，认为父母的学校选择是“人们想要的”。话语往往暗示，选择是为了自己的利益，而不仅仅是作为一种手段，使家庭可以逃避被认为是质量差的学校。对理想主义的、抽象的“选择”概念的支持也被认为意味着对总体准市场的支持，而不是与人们在重视选择的同时可能持有的竞争价值观一起考虑。此外，父母的观点往往没有考虑到父母和非父母之间可能存在的差异。这篇文章利用了2010年英国社会态度调查中新设计的问题中的数据，为公众对教育准市场的渴望程度进行了辩论。文章发现，虽然“抽象”的选择得到了父母和非父母的广泛支持（尽管父母的支持略多），但英国公众对选择的重视似乎更倾向于工具性而非内在性--鉴于准市场外在利益的证据好坏参半，这可能是有问题的。家长和非家长对选择的支持受到了限制，他们明确反对教育券、学校多样性、政府为促进选择而在交通费用上的支出，以及强烈支持将孩子送到“最近的公立学校”的想法。
In the context of inconclusive evidence on the extrinsic successes of quasi‐markets, policy defences of school choice and competition in education have often discussed the intrinsic, empowering value of choice for consumers, arguing that school choice for parents is ‘what people want’. Discourses often imply that choice is desired for its own sake rather than merely as a means by which families can escape what are deemed to be poor quality schools. Support for an idealistic, abstract notion of ‘choice’ is also taken to imply support for quasi‐markets overall and is not considered alongside possible competing values that people may hold at the same time as they value choice. Additionally, views of parents are often examined without considering possible differences in views between parents and non‐parents. Contributing to debates about how far a public desire exists for quasi‐markets in education, this article draws on data from newly designed questions fielded as part of the 2010 British Social Attitudes survey. The article finds that while choice ‘in the abstract’ is supported widely by both parents and non‐parents (albeit slightly more so by parents), a valuing of choice among the British public appears to be more instrumental than intrinsic – potentially problematic given evidence on the extrinsic benefits of quasi‐markets is mixed. Support for choice is tempered among parents and non‐parents by clear opposition to vouchers, school diversity, government spending on transport costs to facilitate choice and by strong support for the idea of sending children to the ‘nearest state school’.