education policy
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- Created on: 21-05-19 12:40
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- education policies
- 1944 tri - partite system
- influenced by the idea of meritocracy
- people should achieve status through own abilities
- provides different education to different students
- grammar, secondary modern, secondary technical
- 11+ exam determines which school student attends
- provides equal opportunity - ability determines school not class or wealth
- evaluation
- reproduced class inequalities - MC achieved higher due to resources
- reproduced gender inequalities - girls needed higher marks to get grammar place
- influenced by the idea of meritocracy
- labour policies
- reducing inequality in achievement and promoting diversity and choice
- aim higher
- encouraging children from deprived areas to go to uni
- raising leaving age to 18 - raising participant age (RPA)
- education action zones (EAZs)
- more money into schools in poor areas
- education maintenance allowance (EMA)
- money to students from low income families to go to college / stay at school
- evaluation
- the 'new labour' paradox
- EMA and RPA vs tuition fees
- even though pupils are staying in education until 18, they are deterred from uni
- EMA and RPA vs tuition fees
- the 'new labour' paradox
- 1988 - marketisation
- schools were encouraged to compete against each other and act like businesses
- competing for students
- examples of marketisation
- league tables
- OFSTED reports
- funding formula
- dependent on the number of students a school had
- national curriculum
- evaluation
- Ball argues that it benefited MC - schools more selective over intake
- cream skimming
- picking the best students (MC)
- silt shifting
- avoid taking bad students
- WC go to under performing schools
- cream skimming
- Ball argues that it benefited MC - schools more selective over intake
- schools were encouraged to compete against each other and act like businesses
- 1965 - comprehensive system
- aimed to overcome class divide
- make education more meritocratic
- 11+ exam abolished
- one school system introduced - places at schools were based on if student lived in catchment area
- evaluation
- reproduced class inequality due to streaming and labelling
- aimed to overcome class divide
- parentocracy
- power shifts away from the producer (schools) to the consumers (parents)
- increase in competitive-ness - development of choice for parents
- ruled by parents
- if a school has high funding formula this will attract more parents
- evaluation
- Gerwitz identified 3 types of parents
- priviledged skills choosers
- MC, use cultural and economic capital to get children into best schools
- semi skilled choosers
- ambitious WC, lack economic and cultural capital
- rely on others - social capital
- disconnected locals
- WC, lack of economic and cultural capital, send children to local school
- priviledged skills choosers
- Gerwitz identified 3 types of parents
- power shifts away from the producer (schools) to the consumers (parents)
- privatisation
- intended to raise standards and increase profits
- blurring the public / private boundary
- many senior officials in the public sector leave to set up or work for private sector education businesses
- globalisation of education
- many education companies are foreign- owned
- some UK edu- businesses work overseas, privatising and exporting UK education policy
- education as a commodity
- education is being privatised - turned into a commodity owned by private companies
- bought and sold in an education market
- education is a source of profit for capitalists
- bought and sold in an education market
- education is being privatised - turned into a commodity owned by private companies
- 1944 tri - partite system
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