marketisation

Question 1

when was the education reform act introduced

Answer 1

1988

Question 2

which government introduced the era

Answer 2

conservative

Question 3

what was the aim of the era

Answer 3

to remove government intervention and marketise education

Question 4

what is marketisation

Answer 4

introduction of market forces of consumer choice and competition

Question 5

what is parentocracy

Answer 5

parents become consumers of eduction and have the choice

Question 6

what is the introduction of the national curriculum

Answer 6

for the first time the government told schools what they had to teach acting as a formal curriculum. (English, maths, science, history, geography)

Question 7

what are the positives of national curriculum

Answer 7

it gives everyone equal opportunity to do well at standardised tests creating meritocratic society as Davis and Moore argues

Question 8

negatives of national curriculum

Answer 8

limits some groups - ethnocentric curriculum, gendered subject choices