EDUCATIONAL POLICIES
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- Created on: 20-05-22 10:09
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- Educational Policies
- 1944 Tripartite system
- Grammar schools secondary moderns, technical school
- Grammar schools- mostly middle class children attended
- children that passed 11+ - mostly m/c due to being able to afford materials and having better education
- Secondary moderns- mostly working class attended
- children that failed 11+ - mostly w/c bc material deprivation and cultural deprivation
- technical schools- very few so not really important
- Grammar schools- mostly middle class children attended
- promoted meritocracy through 11+ - all children take same exam and learn same content meaning same change of achieving
- Myth of meritocracy -Althusser/ Marxist-- w/c don't have same chance as m/c pupils
- Feminist- girls dont have same chance as boys bc girls have to achieve higher in 11+ to get into grammar
- legitimising class and gender inequality
- Feminist- girls dont have same chance as boys bc girls have to achieve higher in 11+ to get into grammar
- Grammar schools secondary moderns, technical school
- 1965 Comprehensive system
- abolishment of the 11+
- All pupils in the same area attended the same comprehensive school
- middle class & working class attended same schools
- less separation of classes
- promoted equality of opportunity
- poor standards in schools
- streaming/ sets esbalished seprated classes reproducing class inequality
- parents had no choice in education for their child
- streaming/ sets esbalished seprated classes reproducing class inequality
- middle class & working class attended same schools
- 1988 Education act- marketisation policies
- main aims- competition and choice
- parentocracy & raising educational standards through marketisation
- League tables - parents can pick best school with best results
- schools on top of the league tables - mostly middle class & over subscribed
- cream skimming - best schools picked best pupils
- myth of parentocracy
- middle class cultural capital
- cream skimming - best schools picked best pupils
- school on bottom of league tables mostly working class, materially deprived and under subscibed
- schools on top of the league tables - mostly middle class & over subscribed
- Ofsted -inspect and regulate schools
- National curriculum- all pupils are taught same subjects
- Formula funding - schools funded based on how many pupils they recruit
- League tables - parents can pick best school with best results
- competition increased standards
- parentocracy & raising educational standards through marketisation
- neo-liberal and new right approach
- main aims- competition and choice
- 1997 New Labour
- Equality of opportunity, increasing choice and diversity
- Education action zones (EMZ)
- Raises standards in deprived areas, more materials and support
- EMZ not in wealthier areas, not as much support for all, could be seen as unfair
- Aim higher programmes
- Educational Maintenance allowance EMA for poor 16-18 y/o
- disadvantaged pupils go on to FE and HE
- many pupils only stayed on for the money
- holds back academic students
- many pupils only stayed on for the money
- disadvantaged pupils go on to FE and HE
- increased funding for state education
- Functionalists- promotes social solidarity, helps role allocation for w/c pupils to do well in future
- Education action zones (EMZ)
- Equality of opportunity, increasing choice and diversity
- 2010 coalition government- conservative
- relects neo- liberal thinking- reducing the role of the state and moving away from comprehensive
- Introduction of academies
- all schools encouraged to become academies
- some owned by privately owned chains & some by government
- all schools encouraged to become academies
- free schools- state funded but set up by parents, religious groups etc
- Introduction of academies
- MARKETISATION & PRIVATISATION
- Spending cuts by the government on ed
- standards have continued to increase
- all by spending less
- standards have continued to increase
- Spending cuts by the government on ed
- relects neo- liberal thinking- reducing the role of the state and moving away from comprehensive
- 1944 Tripartite system
- helps break cycle of deprivation
- re introduction of grammar schools
- introduction of pupil premium to help poorer children
- scrapping of the EMA lowered the say rate on education
- free schools put w/c parents & children at disadvantage -mostly set up by middle class
- cultural capital
- free schools mostly in middle class areas
- free schools put w/c parents & children at disadvantage -mostly set up by middle class
- regional inequalities- up north and coastal schools
- NEW RIGHT -education should operate market principles
- MARXISTS- middle class pupils prepared for m/c jobs in capitalism
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