ED SOC POL Flashcards
(24 cards)
Tripartite System Education Act
1944
The Comprehensive System
1965
Covert Selection
Tough and Brooks - cherry picking those they think will be high achievers.
New Vocationalism
Conservative Government 1979-1997
What did New Vocational aim to do?
Deal with youth unemployment as education didn’t prepare them for the workplace.
Introduced apprenticeships and training schemes - gaining NVQs.
AO3; New Vocationalism
- Cheap labour
- working class and ethnic minorities encouraged = overrepresented
- Cohen; taught to accept low skilled and low paid jobs.
Education Reform Act
1988 - Conservatives
What did the education reform act introduce and why?
Marketisation
- increase parental choice
- increase competition to drive up standards
Policies promoting Marketisation;
- OFSTED and League Tables
- Open Enrolment
- Nat curriculum
- Funding Formula
- Business Sponsorship
Parentocracy
David
AO3; Marketisation
Bartlett; Cream skimming and Silt shifting
Funding Forumla = UNPOPULAR SCHOOLS LOOSE INCOME AND FALL EVEN FURTHER BEHIND.
Gerwitz;
Parental Choice and Inequality
- Disconnected Local Chooser
- Privileged Skilled Chooser
The Myth of Parentocracy
Ball; It appears the have choice but is a myth
- eg: Selection by Mortgage.
New Labour Inequality
1997-2010
Policies of New Labour;
- Education Action Zones
- EMA
- Nat Lit Strat
- Increase funding in State Education
- Sure Start Centres to combat Cultural Dep.
Coalition Gov
2010-2015
What did the Coalition government do?
Academies and Free Schools
Free Schools A03
Allen
AO3; COALITION
Ball - Fragmentation of the Ed system.
System being replaced with patchwork of diverse provision
= Inequality
Coalition Gov and Reducing inequality
Free School Meals and Pupil Premium
AO3; PUPIL PREMUIM
OFSTED; Not spent of supported those who need it.
Conservative Government
2015-2014
What did the recent conservative government bring in?
- Making education harder
- T levels
