Policies

Question 1

Bartlett

Answer 1

P – Define League tables
E – Publishing League tables ensures schools with good results are ranked higher and more in demand
E – Attractive schools are more selective, Bartlett (1993)- cream-skimming, silt-shifting
L – Overall role is to produce more unequal schools and reproduce social class inequality
E – David (1993)- parentocracy where power has been shifted from producers to consumers, encourages schools to be more diverse, increasing choice and raising standards

1993

Question 2

Gerwitz, Leech + Campos

Answer 2

P – Define Marketisation, serves to benefit MC
E – Gerwitz (1995)- study of 14 schools found differences in parents economic + cultural capital affected how far they could exercise their choice
E – Privileged-skill, Disconnected-local, Semi-skilled. Leech + Campos (2003)- selection by mortgage
L – Although in theory education market provides more choice, in practice MC parents possess ‘right’ capital to exercise advantage over WC
E – Information readily available to all so there is no information hierarchy/restriction

1995, 2003

Question 3

Public Policy Research

Answer 3

P – Define Funding formula
E – Popular schools acquire more funds, increasing to afford better teachers + facilities
E – Allows them to be more ambitious + selective, opposite for unpopular schools who lose out on crucial income
L –Public Policy Research (2012)- found competition-oriented education systems produce more segregation between children of social backgrounds
E –Increased competition incentivises schools to raise standards nationally

2012

Question 4

Ball

Answer 4

P – Define Globalisation
E – Many private companies in British education system are owned by foreign corporations
E – Ball (2007)- Edexcel owned by US Pearson, some exam answers marked in Sydney and Iowa
L – Nation state has less control over policy making, foreign corporations will fail to recognise/care for the domestic difficulties faced by British students, failing to provide an equal system
E –Reduced cost for the government, savings can be spent elsewhere on efforts directly affecting disadvantaged students, material deprivation etc.

2007

Question 5

Hall, Pollack

Answer 5

P – Define Privatisation
E – Policy is increasingly focused on moving services from state control into private hands
E – Hall (2007)- Neoliberal revolution has turned education into a legitimate object of profit making
L – Boundary between private and public blurred, private firms hire ex-teachers to ‘buy insider knowledge’ -Pollack (2004)
E – Quality of service increased as educational providers are now answerable to paying consumers

2007, 2004