Educational Policies (Topic 4)
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- Educational Policies
- Aims of Policies
- Economic efficiency: developing the talents of young people to improve the labour force for a good position in the world economy.
- Raising educational standards
- Creating equality: Meritocratic society.
- equality of access: same opportunities to access educational provision aka schools.
- equality of circumstances: similar socio-economic status when they start school.
- equality of participation: everyone has the same changes to participate on an equal footing in school processes.
- equality of outcome: same chance of benefiting from school
- Tripartite System
- Before 1944 young people only had free access to a basic form of education up to 14.
- 1944 Education Act provided free secondary education for all pupils. It established 3 types of schools.
- Grammar
- Technical
- Secondary Modern
- They got into these schools based on the 11+ exams.
- It came under attack in the 60s as the exam was seen as unfair and an inaccurate selection test. Disadvantag-ing w/c children.
- Comprehensive Schools
- Abolished 11+ exams and the 3 schools.
- School Admissions Code abolished acceptation by ability.
- Different types of schools select by ability, aptitude or faith.
- Some schools use covert selections to 'cherry pick' pupils.
- Globalization and Education Policy
- Privatization and marketization of Ed:
- Education is a multi-billion-pound global market and companies want to gain access to them.
- Privatization
- Within the education system schools begin to operate more like businesses.
- EXOGENOUS
- Schools managed by businesses.
- School inspections.
- Branding schools.
- Examination system.
- Marketization
- Independence, allowing schools to control their own affairs and run like private businesses.
- Competition, making schools compete with each other for students/customers.
- Choice, parentocracy, education that suits their needs.
- Emphasis on 'parent power' , a child's education is dependent upon the wealth and wishes of parents rather than the ability of the pupil.
- This leads to schools needing to offer parents more choice: faith schools, specialist schools, academies.
- It has also meant that standards have had to been raised and so schools that risk getting closed down will be taken over by another academy this only improved some situations however.
- Emphasis on 'parent power' , a child's education is dependent upon the wealth and wishes of parents rather than the ability of the pupil.
- International Comparisons
- PISA AND TIMMS AND PIRLS, all examples of league tables that rank the performance of each country. These can create moral panics that create new policies such as raising national and literacy rates.
- Privatization and marketization of Ed:
- Aims of Policies
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