Marketisation and selection policies
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 01-05-14 11:39
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- Marketisation and selection policies
- Marketisation has brought in:
- A funding formula that gives a school the same amount for each pupil.
- Exam league tables that rank each school according to it's performance and make no allowance for the level of it's pupils' ability.
- Competition between schools.
- Youdell and Gilbourne: The A-to-C economy and educational triage
- Boderline C/D pupils targeted for extra help
- Those who will pass anyway
- Hopeless cases
- Teachers use the notion of ability in which working class and black pupils are labelled as "lacking ability."
- Pupils who are labelled this way are more likely to be ignored which produces a self-fufilling prophecy and failure.
- Triage: "sorting."
- This is a system in which schools ration their time, effort and resources, concentrating on the pupils with the potential to get 5 A*-C GCSE's to boost their position in the league tables.
- Similar to Lacey's differentitation
- Competition and selection
- Cream skimming: selecting higher ability pupils who gain the best results and cost less to teach.
- Maketisation explains why schools are under pressure to select more able, largely middle class pupils who gain the school a higher ranking in the league tables.
- Silt-shifting: off-loading pupils with learning difficulties who are expensive to teach and get poor results.
- An image to attract middle class parents
- Some schools have responded to marketisation by creating a "traditional," image to attract middle class parents and this too reinforces class division.
- Fitz: One school spent £10,000 on a pipe organ for assembles and re-named the canteen "the dining hall."
- Gerwitz: "blurred hierarchy of schools."
- Marketisation has brought in:
- Maketisation explains why schools are under pressure to select more able, largely middle class pupils who gain the school a higher ranking in the league tables.
- Gerwitz: "blurred hierarchy of schools."
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