Education social policy - marketisation 2

Question 1

what is privileged school choosers

Answer 1

privileged school choosers - were mainly professional middle class parents who used their economic and cultural capital to gain educational capital for their children. being proposal and confident and well educated were able to take advantage of choice open to them.

Question 2

disconnected local choosers -

Answer 2

these were working class parents whose choices residence by lack of economic and cultural capital They found it hard to understand school admissions and procedures . less confident in their dealings with schools less aware of choices open.

Question 3

semi skilled choosers

Answer 3

• these parents were mainly working class but unlike the disconnected locals they were ambitious for their children. However they lacked cultural capital and found it difficult to make the education market often relying on people’s opinion.

Question 4

what is the myth of pantocracy? (ball)

Answer 4

not only does marketisation reproduce inequality but it also legitimises it by concealing its true causes and by justifying existence. Ball believes that the marketization gives an appearance of a pantocracy . that the education system seems to be based on parent’s having free choices but no that’s an illusion. Gewirtz said middle class parents better benefited from this.

Question 5

what was new labours aims?

Answer 5

while marketisation has increased inequality new labour governments have come up ways to reduce it. T

Question 6

in which ways did new labours reinforce that?

Answer 6

these included designated some zones as deprived and education action zones providing additional resources, aim higher program to raise aspirations and groups underrepresented. EMAS, that encourage low income families to go to school. Indeed funding. However been sees it as contradiction to new labour policies tackling inequality and its commitment to marketisation