Evaluation of Educational Policies: selection, marketisation and greater equality Flashcards
(5 cards)
Education policy from (1979-1997)
- Parental choice
- League tables and funding formula
X Criticism of parental choice. The quality of a child’s education is dependent on how powerful the parents are, which is referred to as parentocracy. Middle class parents have greater pantocracy than working class parents because they have a greater understanding of the education system.
X Criticisms of the league tables and funding formula. (Ball) Schools will be more selective to recruit high achieving pupils (e.g., middle class) pupils, through a process called cream-skimming. As a result, middle class pupils gain the best education, and working-class students end up in low underfunded schools.
Education Reform Act 1988
- New Vocationalism
DAN FINN
- Provides cheap labour
- Keeps wages lower for young workers
- Sex stereotyping reinforced
- The skills taught are only useful for low paying jobs
New Labour Goverment (1997-2010)
- Tuition fees
- Another
X Failed to deal with social inequality. Marxist criticizes retaining the idea of ‘marketisation’ and through the introduction of policies such as student fees, New Labour perpetuated class inequalities in education.
X Tuition fees discouraged working-class children
Coalition-Constervative Government (2010-15)
- Free schools
- Pupil premium
X Free-schools reinforced inequality. Wiborg found that children from ‘highly educated’ families were the ones who did well in free schools.
X The pupil premium was ineffective. Ofsted found that in many cases pupil premium made little or no difference to support poorer children as the money is often spent on other matters within the school.
Globalisation and education policy
- Increase multiculturalism
- Competition about jobs abroad
- Troyna said schools are ‘‘specifically british’’ but now they teach about world religions.
- PISA Panic, schools compete to be the best
Cream skimming, lack of opportunity
Schools abroad are westernised
