James Tooley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3781423 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Tooley |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Tooley |
| ASSINATURA | TOOLEY J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-1411-1836 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A life in low-cost private education
Two factors – my experience in developing countries coupled with an understanding of the potential role for private education – led to me leading a team that won a grant from the International Finance Corporation to study private education in developing countries. I felt that my life should be concerned with the poor, so was dissatisfied by being an expert in private education, which everyone knew was for the privileged only. My epiphany came in …
School choice and parental preferences in a poor area of Monrovia
Setting up a free school
The 2010 Academies Act was significant in introducing Free Schools to the English education system. Opening up funding to new, non-profit entrants on the basis of demand, the policy has aroused support and controversy on political, philosophical and practical educational grounds with implications for social justice in terms of equity and freedom. Given the ostensible quality and empowerment goals of the enacted new (limited) freedoms, the extent …
The Beautiful Tree
"While researching private schools in India, Tooley wandered into the slums of Hyderbad's Old City. He found it overflowing with small, parent-funded schools and set out to discover if they could help achieve universal education. This is the story of Tooley's travels in developing countries and of the children, parents, teachers and entrepreneurs who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own sc…
From Adam Swift to Adam Smith
Journal Article From Adam Swift to Adam Smith: How the ‘Invisible Hand’ Overcomes Middle Class Hypocrisy Get access James Tooley James Tooley 2.29 JCH, Joseph Cowen House, School of ECLS, University of Newcastle, St Thomas’ Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, E1 7RU, UK Correspondence: James Tooley, 2.29 JCH, Joseph Cowen House, School of ECLS, University of Newcastle, St Thomas’ Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, E1 7RU, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Se…
Could for‐profit private education benefit the poor? Some a priori considerations arising from case study research in India
A low‐cost private education sector is acknowledged to be serving the poor in developing countries, including India. However, it is widely accepted that this sector cannot provide a route towards ‘education for all’. This conclusion is explored in the light of case study evidence from low‐income areas of Hyderabad, India. Private education may be beneficial to the poor–especially in terms of greater accountability to parents leading to higher lev…
Private and Public Schooling in Ghana
Private schooling for low-income families
De facto ’ privatisation of education and the poor
Three types of privatisation are identified—involving demand‐side financing, reforms to the educational supply‐side and de facto privatisation, where responsibilities are transferred to the private sector, through the rapid growth of private schools, rather than through reform or legislation. Although de facto privatisation may arise because of parental dissatisfaction with state education, it is perceived as undesirable in the literature. Findin…
An inspector calls
Improving English Pronunciation
This paper describes an experiment in which groups of children attempted to improve their English pronunciation using an English-language learning software, some English films, and a speech-to-text software engine. The experiment was designed to examine two hypotheses. The first is that speech-to-text software, trained in an appropriate voice, can act as an evaluator of accent and clarity of speech as well as help learners acquire a standard way …
Improving English Pronunciation
This paper describes an experiment in which groups of children attempted to improve their English pronunciation using an English-language learning software, some English films, and a speech-to-text software engine. The experiment was designed to examine two hypotheses. The first is that speech-to-text software, trained in an appropriate voice, can act as an evaluator of accent and clarity of speech as well as help learners acquire a standard way …
Why Harry Brighouse is Nearly Right about the Privatisation of Education
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 move…
The Quality of Educational Research
(2001). The Quality of Educational Research: A Perspective From Great Britain. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 76, No. 3-4, pp. 122-140
The Quality of Educational Research
New Versus Old Barber
Professor Michael Barber’s The Learning Game is a key influence on education policy in England and Wales. This paper focuses on Barber’s policy proposals and their theoretical foundations. The paper states the theoretical foundation of the proposals in chaos theory and the working assumption of this paper. It then explores Barber's proposals, for the curriculum, the teaching profession, and the ‘ndividual learning promise’ Finally, alternative me…
The ‘Neo‐liberal’ Critique of State Intervention in Education
This paper challenges Christopher Winch's arguments against the neo-liberal critique of state intervention in education. First, the nature of education and its consumers are shown to imply that education can indeed be described as a commodity. Second, even if the prisoner's dilemma does model the provision of education nevertheless self-interest can bring about a co-operative, mutually agreeable solution. Third, while democratic states are unlike…
On School Choice and Social Class
The work of Ball, Bowe and Gewirtz is probably the most important research to be published on the implications of recent ‘school choice’ reforms in England and Wales. One of their most notable conclusions points to the relationship between social class and school choice. Their conclusions are challenged on methodological grounds. First, it is not clear that their qualitative method can support the generalisation about class and choice which they …
Markets or democracy for education? A reply to Stewart Ranson
This paper, which offers a positive assessment of the role of markets in education, is a ‘reply’ to an earlier contribution to the Journal (41, 4) in which Stewart Ranson argues that markets are intrinsically flawed as a vehicle for improving educational opportunities. The ‘reply’, among other things, argues that Ranson fails to address the shortcomings of education under democratic control and ignores the educational benefits of authentic market…
Politics, Markets and Schools Politics, Markets and America's Schools
Journal Article Politics, Markets and Schools Politics, Markets and America’s Schools Get access James Tooley James Tooley Correspondence: Dr James Tooley, Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford OX2 6PY, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 28, Issue 2, December 1994, Pages 257–265, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.199…
Equality of educational opportunity without the state
The ‘pink‐tank’ on the education reform act
The 'Pink-Tank' on the Education Reform Act
De facto ’ privatisation of education and the poor
Three types of privatisation are identified—involving demand‐side financing, reforms to the educational supply‐side and de facto privatisation, where responsibilities are transferred to the private sector, through the rapid growth of private schools, rather than through reform or legislation. Although de facto privatisation may arise because of parental dissatisfaction with state education, it is perceived as undesirable in the literature. Findin…
On School Choice and Social Class
The work of Ball, Bowe and Gewirtz is probably the most important research to be published on the implications of recent ‘school choice’ reforms in England and Wales. One of their most notable conclusions points to the relationship between social class and school choice. Their conclusions are challenged on methodological grounds. First, it is not clear that their qualitative method can support the generalisation about class and choice which they …
Private schooling for low-income families
An inspector calls
Why Harry Brighouse is Nearly Right about the Privatisation of Education
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 move…
Private and Public Schooling in Ghana
The ‘Neo‐liberal’ Critique of State Intervention in Education
This paper challenges Christopher Winch's arguments against the neo-liberal critique of state intervention in education. First, the nature of education and its consumers are shown to imply that education can indeed be described as a commodity. Second, even if the prisoner's dilemma does model the provision of education nevertheless self-interest can bring about a co-operative, mutually agreeable solution. Third, while democratic states are unlike…
The ‘pink‐tank’ on the education reform act
Setting up a free school
The 2010 Academies Act was significant in introducing Free Schools to the English education system. Opening up funding to new, non-profit entrants on the basis of demand, the policy has aroused support and controversy on political, philosophical and practical educational grounds with implications for social justice in terms of equity and freedom. Given the ostensible quality and empowerment goals of the enacted new (limited) freedoms, the extent …
School choice and parental preferences in a poor area of Monrovia
From Adam Swift to Adam Smith
Journal Article From Adam Swift to Adam Smith: How the ‘Invisible Hand’ Overcomes Middle Class Hypocrisy Get access James Tooley James Tooley 2.29 JCH, Joseph Cowen House, School of ECLS, University of Newcastle, St Thomas’ Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, E1 7RU, UK Correspondence: James Tooley, 2.29 JCH, Joseph Cowen House, School of ECLS, University of Newcastle, St Thomas’ Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, E1 7RU, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Se…
Could for‐profit private education benefit the poor? Some a priori considerations arising from case study research in India
A low‐cost private education sector is acknowledged to be serving the poor in developing countries, including India. However, it is widely accepted that this sector cannot provide a route towards ‘education for all’. This conclusion is explored in the light of case study evidence from low‐income areas of Hyderabad, India. Private education may be beneficial to the poor–especially in terms of greater accountability to parents leading to higher lev…
The Quality of Educational Research
Politics, Markets and Schools Politics, Markets and America's Schools
Journal Article Politics, Markets and Schools Politics, Markets and America’s Schools Get access James Tooley James Tooley Correspondence: Dr James Tooley, Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford OX2 6PY, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 28, Issue 2, December 1994, Pages 257–265, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.199…
The ‘pink‐tank’ on the education reform act
The 'Pink-Tank' on the Education Reform Act
Equality of educational opportunity without the state
Politics, Markets and Schools Politics, Markets and America's Schools
Journal Article Politics, Markets and Schools Politics, Markets and America’s Schools Get access James Tooley James Tooley Correspondence: Dr James Tooley, Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford OX2 6PY, UK. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 28, Issue 2, December 1994, Pages 257–265, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.199…
Markets or democracy for education? A reply to Stewart Ranson
This paper, which offers a positive assessment of the role of markets in education, is a ‘reply’ to an earlier contribution to the Journal (41, 4) in which Stewart Ranson argues that markets are intrinsically flawed as a vehicle for improving educational opportunities. The ‘reply’, among other things, argues that Ranson fails to address the shortcomings of education under democratic control and ignores the educational benefits of authentic market…
On School Choice and Social Class
The work of Ball, Bowe and Gewirtz is probably the most important research to be published on the implications of recent ‘school choice’ reforms in England and Wales. One of their most notable conclusions points to the relationship between social class and school choice. Their conclusions are challenged on methodological grounds. First, it is not clear that their qualitative method can support the generalisation about class and choice which they …
The ‘Neo‐liberal’ Critique of State Intervention in Education
This paper challenges Christopher Winch's arguments against the neo-liberal critique of state intervention in education. First, the nature of education and its consumers are shown to imply that education can indeed be described as a commodity. Second, even if the prisoner's dilemma does model the provision of education nevertheless self-interest can bring about a co-operative, mutually agreeable solution. Third, while democratic states are unlike…
New Versus Old Barber
Professor Michael Barber’s The Learning Game is a key influence on education policy in England and Wales. This paper focuses on Barber’s policy proposals and their theoretical foundations. The paper states the theoretical foundation of the proposals in chaos theory and the working assumption of this paper. It then explores Barber's proposals, for the curriculum, the teaching profession, and the ‘ndividual learning promise’ Finally, alternative me…
The Quality of Educational Research
(2001). The Quality of Educational Research: A Perspective From Great Britain. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 76, No. 3-4, pp. 122-140
The Quality of Educational Research
Improving English Pronunciation
This paper describes an experiment in which groups of children attempted to improve their English pronunciation using an English-language learning software, some English films, and a speech-to-text software engine. The experiment was designed to examine two hypotheses. The first is that speech-to-text software, trained in an appropriate voice, can act as an evaluator of accent and clarity of speech as well as help learners acquire a standard way …
Improving English Pronunciation
This paper describes an experiment in which groups of children attempted to improve their English pronunciation using an English-language learning software, some English films, and a speech-to-text software engine. The experiment was designed to examine two hypotheses. The first is that speech-to-text software, trained in an appropriate voice, can act as an evaluator of accent and clarity of speech as well as help learners acquire a standard way …
Why Harry Brighouse is Nearly Right about the Privatisation of Education
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 move…
An inspector calls
Private schooling for low-income families
De facto ’ privatisation of education and the poor
Three types of privatisation are identified—involving demand‐side financing, reforms to the educational supply‐side and de facto privatisation, where responsibilities are transferred to the private sector, through the rapid growth of private schools, rather than through reform or legislation. Although de facto privatisation may arise because of parental dissatisfaction with state education, it is perceived as undesirable in the literature. Findin…
From Adam Swift to Adam Smith
Journal Article From Adam Swift to Adam Smith: How the ‘Invisible Hand’ Overcomes Middle Class Hypocrisy Get access James Tooley James Tooley 2.29 JCH, Joseph Cowen House, School of ECLS, University of Newcastle, St Thomas’ Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, E1 7RU, UK Correspondence: James Tooley, 2.29 JCH, Joseph Cowen House, School of ECLS, University of Newcastle, St Thomas’ Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, E1 7RU, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Se…
Could for‐profit private education benefit the poor? Some a priori considerations arising from case study research in India
A low‐cost private education sector is acknowledged to be serving the poor in developing countries, including India. However, it is widely accepted that this sector cannot provide a route towards ‘education for all’. This conclusion is explored in the light of case study evidence from low‐income areas of Hyderabad, India. Private education may be beneficial to the poor–especially in terms of greater accountability to parents leading to higher lev…
Private and Public Schooling in Ghana
The Beautiful Tree
"While researching private schools in India, Tooley wandered into the slums of Hyderbad's Old City. He found it overflowing with small, parent-funded schools and set out to discover if they could help achieve universal education. This is the story of Tooley's travels in developing countries and of the children, parents, teachers and entrepreneurs who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own sc…
Setting up a free school
The 2010 Academies Act was significant in introducing Free Schools to the English education system. Opening up funding to new, non-profit entrants on the basis of demand, the policy has aroused support and controversy on political, philosophical and practical educational grounds with implications for social justice in terms of equity and freedom. Given the ostensible quality and empowerment goals of the enacted new (limited) freedoms, the extent …
School choice and parental preferences in a poor area of Monrovia
A life in low-cost private education
Two factors – my experience in developing countries coupled with an understanding of the potential role for private education – led to me leading a team that won a grant from the International Finance Corporation to study private education in developing countries. I felt that my life should be concerned with the poor, so was dissatisfied by being an expert in private education, which everyone knew was for the privileged only. My epiphany came in …
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