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Les effets du choix de l'école selon la nature du dispositif mis en œuvre : une approche comparative en terme d'équité

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This doctoral thesis analyses the implications derived from the regulations and the implementation of school choice programs at the level of the redistribution of the social good education – freedom for parents to choose the schools of their children, increasing the control of citizens on the way schools educate, maximisation of educational options for children, equalisation of educational opportunities, satisfaction of preferences, education to democracy, tolerance and autonomy. To this aim, we do a systematic empirical assessment of four school choice programs (London, Amsterdam, Paris and Buenos Aires) with the help of several methodological tools. On the one hand, a theoretical model of the effects of school choice on equity is built from liberal-egalitarian principles in education and empirical investigations. On the other hand, a very detailed description of the evolution of educational spaces is carried out from the point of view of equity with a whole set of methodological tools – typology of school choice mechanisms, conceptualisation of systems and choice programs, typology of theoretical modes of distribution of the social good education. The analysis shows that the enlargement of school choice possibilities is able to favour equity, including the freedom of parents as an instrumental value and mechanisms of compensation based on the allocation of efficient educational resources. However, local variations of the implementation of educational policies and the lack of diversity, or the absence, of alternative schools in certain areas show that a unique model of school choice programs is not valid.