New Right: education
- Created by: sarah_mocha
- Created on: 27-03-16 22:19
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- New Right: role + function of education
- education should create a meritocratic social order where the best will prosper
- agree with functionalism in that they argue some people are naturally more able than others
- the education system should help to create a united and integrated society by creating a common national culture and identity
- thus, a key role of education is to socialise
- however, the current education system is failing to achieve this
- it is failing because it is controlled by the government and there's no competitive edge; no reason to improve
- education is dominated by a select few who do not take into account the interests of parents and children
- the solution to this is to unleash the power of the market and let the consumer decide what constitutes appropriate education
- power must be taken away from the state + teachers and instead give it to the parents to create a parentocracy
- marketisation: process of applying market forces of consumer choice to education and creating competition between schools
- the solution to this is to unleash the power of the market and let the consumer decide what constitutes appropriate education
- education is trying to hard to create equality, it needs to focus on standards instead
- creation of an educational market where parents have the power to choose which school their child attends forces schools to raise their standards and focus on raising attaintment
- UK needs a skilled workforce that has the essential skills to enable it to compete with other countries
- the New Right believe that schools should have a greater focus on work-based skills and less of a focus on raising cultural awareness
- Key Sociologists: Chubb and Moe
- state schools are inefficient; a market system must be introduced in the way of a voucher system
- each family would be given a voucher to spend on buying education from a school of their choice
- state schools are inefficient; a market system must be introduced in the way of a voucher system
- Evaluation
- marketisation often disadvantages the working-class students
- the idea that ability is a fixed and natural biological characteristic is questionable
- ignores the impact of material, cultural or educational processes that may alter a person's ability
- education should create a meritocratic social order where the best will prosper
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