The New Right

Question 1

Suggest a few criticisms of the new right.

Answer 1

• competition fails as middle class capitalise on more available material due to economy.
• educational standards are the result of inadequate funding to schools.

Question 2

What approach does the new right reflect?

Answer 2

Reflects the views of the functionalist approach.

Question 3

What do Chubb and moe (1990) suggest?

Answer 3

U.S. system has failed to deliver equality or opportunity and skills needed by the economy. Private schools= better education.

Question 4

What does the new right tell us?

Answer 4

• there should be a free market in education.
• schools and colleges should run like private businesses.
• competition would drive up standards.

Question 5

in the states, how many low income students were tested in state and private schools and what percent did better in private?

Answer 5

60,000

5%

Question 6

what does Gewirtz (1995) argue?

Answer 6

middle class capitalise on the information available to them.

Question 7

what is the contradiction to the new right?

Answer 7

the new right advocate parental choice however a centrally controlled compulsory curriculum.

Question 8

the new right argue that the education system facilitates a shared culture, what are the criticisms made my the Marxists towards this?

Answer 8

Marxist theorists think that the national curriculum is based on the ideology of the dominant class and devaluates those of a working class background and ethnic minorities.