From Assisted Places to Free Schools: Subsidizing Private Schools for the Northern English Middle Classes

Autor/in	Gamsu, Sol
Titel	From Assisted Places to Free Schools: Subsidizing Private Schools for the Northern English Middle Classes
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41 (2020) 8, S.1093-1114 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Gamsu, Sol)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2020.1833180
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Middle Class; Private Schools; Financial Support; Educational History; Educational Equity (Finance); Educational Trends; Trend Analysis; Free Schools; Public Schools; Institutional Characteristics; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Social Structure; Advantaged; Comparative Analysis; Social Class; Geographic Regions; State Aid; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mittelschicht; Private school; Privatschule; Finanzielle Förderung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsentwicklung; Trendanalyse; Free school; Freie Schule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Sozialstruktur; Social classes; Soziale Klasse
Abstract	This paper examines how the English educational state has consistently acted to support private schooling in areas where fee-paying schools would be otherwise financially unviable. Educational data on private school participation since the 2008 financial crisis reveals the stark regional divides between London and the South-East of England and the rest of the country. This analysis of contemporary trends is framed within a historical understanding of the spatial dualism of the English middle class in relation to education. The paper traces the policy lineages of the spatial logic of state subsidies for elite models of schooling in northern England, noting the continuity between Direct Grant grammar schools, the Assisted Places scheme and the recent conversion of private schools into state-funded academy or free schools. A review of applications from private schools to become free schools highlights, how differentiated local class structures affect the viability of elite education without state support. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01