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Professor Harry Brighouse has written extensively against 'educational choice' reforms in England and Wales and in the USA, and has challenged the status quo of private school provision in England and Wales. This paper explores the extent to which his arguments are applicable to the more radical, but prima facie linked, concept of the 'privatisation of education', that is, where funding, provision or regulation of education are progressively moved away from the state to the private sector. The arguments address in particular the issues of autonomy-facilitating education and educational equality, suggesting that Brighouse's arguments that use these concepts are not powerful objections to the case for choice or privatisation. Indeed, it is suggested that there are several arguments in Brighouse's writings, concerning the virtues of efficiency, diversity and innovation, and the power of the 'mimicking effect' of parents who are not skilled choosers, that contain the kernel for an argument advanced elsewhere that defends, rather than opposes, the privatisation of education.
Author(s): Tooley J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Philosophy of Education
Year: 2003
Volume: 37
Issue: 3
Pages: 427-447
ISSN (print): 0309-8249
ISSN (electronic): 1467-9752
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.00337
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9752.00337
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