Gov Policies - Marketisation Flashcards
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What are league tables?
School exam results that are made public and ranked agaisnt other schools in the area or country
What is the problem with league tables?
Educational Triage
What is educational triage?
Where schools focus on students with mid grades to pass and ignore the lower grade students as it is too much effort to pass them
Why are league tabled done?
To raise standards by creating competition
What is more money?
Where government invests more money into schools to increase their budget and fight underachievment
Whats a way more money fights underachievement?
Pupil premium
Why is more more money done?
For ecenomic effieciency, to meet needs of industry and to create equal opportunites (a meritocracy)
What are specialist schools?
Schools given a special status in a particular subject and are allowed to pick students based on ability
What is cream skimming?
Schools can select their students who are high achieving to boost the schools average grade
What is Tough and Brooks’ “Covert Selection”?
Picking students by assuming grades based on their social class
What is Bowels and Ginitis’ “Selection”?
That success is made through gender, age, ethnicity, class and not hard work work, which leads to covert selection
Who pushed marketisation? Why?
New Right
To encourage schools to compete against eachother
What is open enrollment?
Parents are given options on where they want to send their child - not just closest or catchment.
Leads to parentocracy
What is parentocracy?
Parents are now in control of their childs education
What did Chubb and Moe say about open enrolment?
A free choice of schools creates a more effieienct education as people can go into higher education levels.
Why was open enrolment done?
To create equal opportunity - meritocracy
What is LMS?
Local management of schools - schools are given more independence on how to spend their money.
What is formula funding?
Money is given to schools depending on how many students it enrolls.
Results in ‘dumbing down’
What is dumbing down?
Making subjects or exams easier to keep children in schools so formula funding stays or increases
Why is formula funding done?
For economic effieiency and to meet the needs to industry
What is the national curriculum?
Schools are given a strict criteria of what to teach 5-14 year olds
What is Bowels and Ginitis’ “Hidden Curriculum”?
The unofficial learning that happen for students in schools, norms and values and respect for hierarcy - staff ‘sir’ + ‘miss’. It operates through the national curriculum
What is Althussars’ “Economic Role”?
Schools teach students to obey the ruling class, lead to false consciousness, through national and hidden curriculum?
What is false consciousness?
where individuals, particularly working class, don’t recognize or understand their own exploitation and oppression by the ruling class
