Neoliberalism and the New Right Perspective on Educatio
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- Neoliberalism and the New Right Perspective on Education
- Neoliberalism - an economic doctrine that has major influence on educational policies
- Believe the state shouldn't provide services
- Based on the idea that the state shouldn't dictate to individuals on how to dispose of their own property and shouldn't try to regulate the free-market economy
- Governments should try to encourage competition, privatise state-run businesses and deregulate markets
- Value of education lies in how well it enables the country to compete in the global market place
- Can only be achieved if schools become more like businesses
- Empowering parents and pupils as consumers
- Using competition between schools to drive up standards
- Can only be achieved if schools become more like businesses
- The New Right
- The state cannot meet peoples needs and people are best left to meet their own own needs through the free market
- Similarities to Functionalist views
- Believe some people are naturally more talented than others
- Favour an education system run on meritocratic principles of open competition - serves the needs of economy by preparing young people for work
- Believe that education should socialise pupils into society's shared values and instil a sense of national identity
- Current education system isn't achieving goals and is failing - STATE RUN
- Takes a 'one size fits all' approach
- Education systems are unresponsive and inefficient
- Schools that waste money or get poor results - not answerable to consumers
- Results in - lower standards of achievement for pupils, a less qualified work force and a less prosperous economy
- Solution = marketisation of education
- Competition between schools and empowering consumers will bring greater diversity, choice and efficiency to schools
- Increases schools' abilities to meet the needs of pupils, parents and employers
- Competition between schools and empowering consumers will bring greater diversity, choice and efficiency to schools
- Chubb and Moe: Consumer Choice
- State-run education has failed in the USA:
- Hasn't created equal opportunities - failed the needs of disadvantaged groups
- Inefficient - fails to produce pupils with the skills needed by the economy
- Private schools deliver higher quality education - answerable to paying consumers
- Introduction of market-style system in state education
- Would put consumers in control
- Allows consumers to shape schools to meet their own needs and improves their quality and efficiency
- Each family would be given a voucher to spend on buying education from a school of their choice
- Forces schools to become more responsive to parents' wishes
- Schools would have to compete to attract 'customers' by improving their 'product'
- State-run education has failed in the USA:
- The New Right: Two Roles of the State
- State imposes a framework on schools within which they have to compete
- State ensures that schools transmit a shared culture - imposing a single national curriculum, it seeks to guarantee that schools socialise pupils into a single cultural heritage
- Education should affirm national identity - aim to integrate pupils into a single set of traditions and cultural values
- Evaluation
- Gewirtz (1995) and Ball (1994) - competition between schools benefits the middle-class who can use their cultural and economic capital to gain access to more desirable schools
- The real cause of low educational standards - social inequality and inadequate funding of state schools
- Contradiction between the New Right's support for parental choice and the state imposing a compulsory national curriculum in all schools
- Marxists - education imposes a culture of a dominant minority ruling class
- Neoliberalism - an economic doctrine that has major influence on educational policies
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