Role And Function Of Education Social Democratic

Question 1

What are the four roles and functions of education according to social democratic?

Answer 1

1. Promote and reinforce a culture of equality of opportunity for all in terms of social class
2. Promote and reinforce a culture of equality for all in relation to ethnicity/gender
3. Prevent wastage of ability eg. Invest in the skill and knowledge of all to help them strive to achieve
4. Encourage the teaching of meaningful vocational skills to prepare students for work

Question 2

Who said promote and reinforce a culture of equality of opportunity for all in terms of social class?

Answer 2

• Halsey
• Educational maintenance allowance

Question 3

What did Halsey say about promote and reinforce a culture of equality of opportunity for all in terms of social class?

Answer 3

• research demonstrated that even after 1944 education act, which was intended to provide equal opportunity for all, significant class differences in education persisted
• found middle class children continued to achieve better qualifications and were more likely to go to university compared to working class children
• supported the social democratic view that while equality of opportunity is a desirable goal, the education system at the time still favoured middle class students

Question 4

What did the EMA say about promote and reinforce a culture of equality of opportunity for all in terms of social class?

Answer 4

• Labour Party policy introduced with aim to increase number of 16-18 year olds from low income families participating in further education or training by providing weekly cash allowance to those who meet education requirements
• designed to encourage students from disadvantaged backgrounds to stay in education beyond GCSEs and obtain higher qualifications
• research done by institute for fiscal studies and Loughborough university found staying on rates improved by 5.9% among those who were eligible

Question 5

Who said promote and reinforce a culture of equality for all in relation to ethnicity?

Answer 5

• City academies

Question 6

Who said promote and reinforce a culture of equality for all in relation to gender?

Answer 6

• Curriculum 2000

Question 7

What did city academies say about promote and reinforce a culture of equality for all in relation to ethnicity?

Answer 7

• developed by labour government aim of replacing what were considered to be failing comprehensive schools, often located in inner city areas
• funding and control (directly funded by government and receive additional funding from local businesses or organisations who act as sponsors and provide financial benefits and expertise), autonomy (intended to allow them to teach a curriculum more relevant to their learners and improve student performance), purpose (designed to help lower income and ethnic minority students perform better)

Question 8

What did curriculum 2000 say about promote and reinforce a culture of equality for all in relation to gender?

Answer 8

• Labour Party policy that revised the a level curriculum
• modular approach aimed to provide more flexible way of working, potentially making workloads less stressful for students and allowing them to understand content more in depth, with overall goal of increasing standards of education
• new subjects also introduced such as art and design and social sciences which girls are more likely to study

Question 9

Who said prevent wastage of ability eg. Invest in the skill and knowledge of all to help them strive and achieve?

Answer 9

• sure start centres

Question 10

What did sure start centres say about prevent wastage of ability?

Answer 10

• Labour Party policy introduced to address inequalities that children from disadvantaged backgrounds may face by providing compensatory education
• social democratic view supported by sure start is to prevent wastage of ability by ensuring all children have an equal chance to succeed regardless of their class background
• targeted towards those in lower class backgrounds and disadvantaged areas and given that a high proportion of some ethnic minority students come from low income families, policies like sure start targeting class would also target ethnic minorities

Question 11

Who said encourage the teaching of meaningful vocational skills to prepare students for work?

Answer 11

• New deal

Question 12

What did the new deal say about encourage the teaching of meaningful vocational skills to prepare students for work?

Answer 12

• labour policy aimed at reducing unemployment among young people targeted to 18-24 year olds who had been out of work for 6 months
• participants of the new deal were provided with personal advisors who would guide them through different options to assist them in returning to work and offered various pathways to help young people gain employment including training, subsidised employment and voluntary work
• if eligible students refused to participate in new deal, their benefits could be taken away
• aimed at ensuring those who had bad education experiences still had choices that could make them employable and reflects social democratic view that role of education is to provide equality of opportunity and to prevent the wastage of ability by ensuring people have the skills needed for employment