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]]> By: Doug Belshaw http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/index.php/2006/05/26/the-quasi-marketization-of-english-schools/#comment-925 Doug Belshaw Fri, 26 May 2006 17:05:09 +0000 http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/index.php/2006/05/26/the-quasi-marketization-of-english-schools/#comment-925 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... ;) 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… ;)

]]> By: Miles Berry http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/index.php/2006/05/26/the-quasi-marketization-of-english-schools/#comment-924 Miles Berry Fri, 26 May 2006 16:53:30 +0000 http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/index.php/2006/05/26/the-quasi-marketization-of-english-schools/#comment-924 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. 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.

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