Education: Social policy

Question 1

Functionalists

Answer 1

see role of education as fulfilling essential functions-comprehensive school promote social integration and more meritocratic

Question 2

Marxists

Answer 2

education system serves interests of capitalism reproducing + legitimising inequality. comprehensives are not more meritocratic

Question 3

Ford

Answer 3

comprehensive schools had little social mixing between classes due to streaming

Question 4

Neo liberals + New right

Answer 4

favour marketisation-school attracts customers through competition and provide what customers want, forcing a push for all to succeed

Question 5

Bartlett

Answer 5

cream skimming-good school=selective, recruit high achiever m/c silt shifting-good schools avoid less able pupils that would damage league table position

Question 6

Ball + Whitty

Answer 6

league tables + funding formula reproduce class inequality by creating inequality between schools

Question 7

David

Answer 7

marketized education= parentocracy, power shifts from producers to consumers

Question 8

Gerwitz

Answer 8

identified 3 main parent types: privileged skilled choosers(m/c), disconnected local choosers(w/c less aware, restricted),semi skilled choosers(w/c but ambitious)

Question 9

Ball

Answer 9

marketisation gives appearance of parentocracy (is a myth)m/c take advantage of choices available

Question 10

Leech + Campos

Answer 10

m/c afford to move to areas of more desirable schools. inequality in education appears as fair and inevitable

Question 11

Benn-Eval

Answer 11

new labour paradox-contradiction between policy to tackle inequality and commitment to marketisation

Question 12

New Labour 1997-2010

Answer 12

aim higher programme-raise aspiration of under represented, education maintenance allowance(EMA)-payment, national literacy strategy-reduced class size

Question 13

Coalition Government

Answer 13

moved away from comprehensive schools, previous policies=cut, free school from dead hands of state. academies + free schools. pupil premium + FSM

Question 14

Allen-Eval

Answer 14

free schools only benefit m/c + highly educated families

Question 15

Ball

Answer 15

promotion of academies, free schools increase fragmentation(private=greater inequality in options) + centralisation of control(elected local role=reduced)

Question 16

OFSTED-Eval

Answer 16

pupil premium was not spent on those it was supposed to help

Question 17

Ball

Answer 17

education service industry is a source of profit. companies make 10x as much profit

Question 18

Pollack

Answer 18

companies can buy insider knowledge and side step local authority

Question 19

Molnar

Answer 19

schools are targeted by private companies because they carry enormous goodwill

Question 20

Ball

Answer 20

Cadbury sport equipment promotion scrapped-pupils need to eat 5400 bars.

Question 21

Bedar

Answer 21

£110,000 spent in Tesco in return for 1 single computer

Question 22

Ball

Answer 22

privatisation=key factor shaping educational policy. education is being turned into private profit making objects

Question 23

Ball

Answer 23

possibilities of privatisation=expanding opening up more educational services for profit

Question 24

Hall

Answer 24

coalition gov policies=part of neoliberal revolution. handing over public service to private capitalists

Question 25

Neo liberals + New right

Answer 25

critical of role of state- education needs to be marketized 2 types: internal market with state education, privatisation of state education. commissions +regulates

Question 26

Ball

Answer 26

Pearson GCSE exams=marked in Sydney + Iowa

Question 27

Buckingham + Scanlon

Answer 27

4 UK leading education software companies=multinationals

Question 28

Kelly-Eval

Answer 28

wider aspect of education are being ignored .focus on employability not personal development

Question 29

Stables + Wikley

Answer 29

girls and boys choose differently where there is choice, national curriculum prevented thhis-ks1-3 study same subjects until 16

Question 30

Mitsos + Browne

Answer 30

girls are more successful in coursework as they are more organised

Question 31

Elwood-Eval

Answer 31

coursework=unlikely to be only cause of girls achieving-exams have more influence

Question 32

Jackson

Answer 32

exam league tables have improved opportunities for girls (more desirable)

Question 33

Slee

Answer 33

boys=less attractive due to behavioural issues

Question 34

New Right

Answer 34

competitive environment benefits boys as schools are forced to drive up results

Question 35

Banks + Banks

Answer 35

growth in ethnic population is fast. MCE(multicultural education) aimed to promote achievement of ethnicity by valuing all culture raising self esteem

Question 36

Banks

Answer 36

goal of MCE is to learn about and from each other-therefore appropriate for everyone not just ethnic minority

Question 37

Stone-Eval

Answer 37

black pupils don't fail from lack of self esteem so MCE=misguided

Question 38

Gillborn-Eval

Answer 38

there are still institutionally racist policies in relation to ethnocentric curriculum and streaming

Question 39

Gillborn

Answer 39

marketisation gives schools more scope to select pupils allowing negative stereotypes to influence decisions

Question 40

Moore + Davenport

Answer 40

selection processes lead to ethnic segregation and are favoured by white pupils. ethnically stratified education system

Question 41

Commission for racial equality

Answer 41

racism in school admission procedure means ethnic minority end up in unpopular schools

Question 42

Mirza-Eval

Answer 42

educational policy takes soft approach not tackling structural causes of inequality e.g. poverty