Empowerment and State Education
Rights of Choice and Participation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9194336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neville Harris (0000-0001-5383-2191, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 925-957 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7961 • E-ISSN: 1468-2230 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2005.00567.x |
| OpenAlex | W2051862491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 10 |
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
Citizenship · Corporate governance · Economics · Empowerment · Enforcement · General partnership · Ideal (ethics) · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Parental Involvement in Education · Public Administration · Religious Education and Schools
Playing Catch-up in the Schoolyard? Children and Young People's 'Voice' and Education Rights in the UK
Theorising equality in education
Parental experiences of dealing with disputes in Additional Support Needs in Scotland
The rights of children and young people under special educational needs legislation in England
Children changing spaces, changing schools
Local Authorities and the Accountability Gap in a Fragmenting Schools System
A ‘Third Way’ for lay involvement
Poverty, Ideology and Legality
Fresh Perspectives on School Choice
Paving a ‘third way’? A policy trajectory analysis of education action zones
Schools for the 21st century
Investing in the Citizen‐workers of the Future
Consumerism and the Public Sector
Education by Right? Breach of the Duty to Provide ‘Sufficient’ Schools
Community government
Pious Wishes or Directly Enforceable Human Rights
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |