Marketisation And Parentocracy

Question 1

What year was the ERA?

Answer 1

1988

Question 2

Who else encouraged marketisation? (Who traditionally might not have)

Answer 2

New labour governments of Blair and Brown

Question 3

What is marketisation?

Answer 3

Process of introducing market forces/consumer choice and competition between suppliers into areas run by the state such as education or the NHS

Question 4

What does the term ‘parentocracy’ used by Miriam David means?

Answer 4

rule by parents - power shifts from producers (schools and teachers) to consumers (students and parents)

Question 5

Why do they claim parentocracy is a good thing?

Answer 5

RAISES STANDARDS- encourages diversity and gives pupils more choice

Question 6

3 policies that promote marketization?

Answer 6

• Publication of exam league tables and Ofsted results
• Business sponsorship of schools
• Open enrolment
• Formula funding
• Schools being allowed to opt out of LEA (local education authority) control
• Schools having to compete to attract pupils
• Some politicians have proposed educational vouchers

Question 7

How do Stephen Ball and Geoff Whitty suggest marketization reproduces/ legitimates inequality?

Answer 7

exam league tables - encourages/discourages pupils

formula funding - more pupils the better the school can get encouraging more pupils

Question 8

What does Ball believe about parentocracy?

Answer 8

That it’s a MYTH
- appears as if parents have free choice
- In reality Gerwitz shows:
m/c parents have more economic capital and cultural capital and are better (E.G as Leech and Campos can afford to move into wealthier catchments areas of better schools)