Neoliberalism and New Right: The Role of Education

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  • Neoliberalism and New Right: Role of Education
    • Define Neoliberalism
      • an economic doctorine
      • State should not proivde services like education
        • governments should encourage competition, derelegate markets and privatise state run businesses
      • Schools should be more like businesses
    • Define New Right
      • a conservative political view
      • State cannot meet peoples needs and people should meet their own needs through a free market
      • favour marketisation
      • Competition between schools and consumers will bring greater diversity, choice and efficiency in schools
    • Chubb and Moe: State education has failed in the US
      • Not created equal opportunity and has failed the needs of disadvantaged groups
      • Inefficient as it fails to produce pupils with the skills needed by the economy
      • Private schools deliver higher quality education because they are answerable to consumers
      • Market System: to allow consumers to shape schools to meet their own needs and improve quality and efficiency
      • Each family would be given a voucher to spend on buying education from a school of their choice
    • Two Roles for the State
      • OFSTED
        • a framework within which pupils compete
        • By inspection reports and league tables.. state gives parents information to make an informal choice
      • Shared Culture
        • a national curriculum, guarantees schools socialise pupils into a single shared heritage
    • Evaluation
      • Gewirtz and Ball: competition between schools benefits the middle class
        • they can use their cultural and economic capital to access the best schools
      • the real cause of low educational standards is not state control but social inequality and inadequate funding
      • Conflict between the state imposed national curriculum and free choice for parents
      • Marzists: education does not impose a shared national culture...
        • .....all it does is impose the culture of a dominant minority ruling class and devalues the culture of working and ethnic classes

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