Education Policies Flashcards
Education Act (Education for all)
1870- Conservative
The Tripartite system
1944- Conservative
- Vocational
- Grammar schools
- Secondary et al
- Cream skimming
- Silt shifting
Comprehensive system
1965: Labour
- equality of opportunitiy
- parity of esteem
Education reform act
1988- Thatcher
- Education reform act
- League tables
- National curriculum
- Funding formular
- Marketisation
- Privatisation
- Introduction of coursework
- Parentocracy
- Marketisation
- Globalisation
Labour reform Act
1997: New Labour
- Tuition fees
- Sure start
- Bursary scheme
- EMA: maintainance allowance
- EAZ: Action zones
- Equality of opportunity
- Parentocracy
Coalition Policy
2010- Conservative and Lib dems
- Academies
- Free schools
- Pupil premium
- Performance related pay for teachers
- Fragmented centralisation
- Cola-isation
2017 +
Conservative
- Change to number GCSE grades
- Planned expansion of grammar schools
- Silt shifting
Functionalism
Education is meritocratic and beneficial to individuals and society
New right/neo liberal
Supports Marketisation, parentocracy and selective schooling
Marxism
Educational policies supports the middle class and help to maintain working class underachievement
Feminism
Educational policy often reflects patriarchal ideology
Social Action
Sociologists such as Becker would be interested in understanding how social policy affects individuals
Postmodernism
Recent educational policies reflect choice and individualism in a global world
