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As many of you know, I’m current studying towards an Ed.D. (a taught doctorate) at the University of Durham. This weekend is the second weekend of teaching for the Policy module I’ve opted to take and I’ve to make a short presentation on a paper. I thought I’d share it here…
The article I’ve been allocated is by Nick Adnett and Peter Davies, entitled Schooling reforms in England: from quasi-markets to co-opetition? which is from the Journal of Education Policy, Vol.18 No.4 (July-August 2003). You can download a copy of this below:
PDF (right-click and ‘Save As…’)
I’ve been asked to play the role of ‘discussant’ - i.e. to stimulate debate and discussion around the article. You may find the themes (tag cloud!) interesting as well as the questions. You can either download the presentation as a PowerPoint file or view it online as a Flash animation:
Powerpoint (right-click and ‘Save As…’)
Flash (left-click to view)
Your feedback, as ever, is much appreciated!
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Thanks for sharing this Doug. I love the idea of abstracting tag clouds from journal articles - can you explain how you went about this?
Adnett and Davies’ 2002 book, “Markets for schooling: an economic analysis” (Routledge) is well worth having a glance at if Durham have a copy. If memory serves, they make some interesting points about the extent to which parents are exercising their opportunities to choose in a way that can be described as rational, and contrast the quasi-market in the maintained sector with the more traditional version that applies to private education, where there is perhaps a greater emphasis on competition, both in recruitment and retention.
I hope you don’t mind my saying, but you might need to check with the authors and or publishers before posting the pdf of the origianl article.
Anyhow, I hope the presentation goes well - do let us know.
Hi Miles,
Thanks for your comment. All I did r.e. the tag cloud was write down a couple of themes from each paragraph in the margin as I was going through reading it for the first time. After I finished reading it, I went back through the themes and added them to a slide in alphabetical order. If a theme was already on there, I simply increased its font size by two. This produced fairly good results!
You’re absolutely right about the PDF, of course, but it’s silly that research isn’t available to everyone. So I’ll leave it there as my own little protest…