Social Policy Flashcards
(16 cards)
What is the tripatite system
1944 Education act
Placed into one of 3 types of schools with the 11+
- grammar school
non manual jobs +higher education
- Secondary modern
‘practical’ curriculum
- Tech schools only existed in few areas
Comprehensive schooling
1965 introducing this system attempting to make schools more meritocratic
Functionalist views on comprehensive schools
argues that this system is fairer and offers greater social cohesion
- gives pupils time to develop and nurture skills
Ford found that early on there had been little social cohesion between middle and working class
Marxist veiws on comprehensive schools
Schools are not meritocratic and they reproduce class inequalities with streaming and labelling
Industrialisation impact
it called for a better educated workforce
When was marketisation introduced
under Thatcher Govt 1988 with the education reform act
What is parentocracy
this government more of a choice for parents and where they sent their children David ‘rule by parent’
Policies to promote marketisation
- Publication of league tables + Ofstead inspections
- Open enrolment
- Introduction of tuition fees in higher education
- Funding formula
How does marketisation reproduce inequalities
Ball and Whitty exams, league tables and funding formula reproduce class inequalities or inequalities between schools
Cream-skimming
‘good schools’ can be more selective with their perspective pupils
Barlett
Silt-shifting
‘good schools’ can avoid taking less pupils who are likely to gain poor results
Barlett
Funding formula
Schools are allocated funding based on the pupil in the school
- popular schools get more funding so they can afford better quality facilities + teachers
- Unpopular schools lose funds and my find it hard to find teachers
Gerwirtz parent choice
study of 14 london seconday schools difference in parents economic and cultural capital = class differences and how far they cn exercise choice of secondwry school
Myth of parentocracy
Ball marketisation give the apperence of parentocracy but argues this is a myth and all parents infact don’t have the choices highlighted in Gerwirtz study - MC parents take batter advantage
1997 - 2010
New Labour policies
attempting to reduce inequalities
- designating some areas as education action zone providing additional resources
- aim higher programme
- EMA - payments made to students from LI to encourage them to stay them to stay post 16
- National literacy streatergy
- City academies
- Increase funding for state education
Benn
Sees contridiction in new labour polices. ‘New labour paradox’ Introducing EMA and in the same breath making tuition fees £3,000 a year for higher education
