Social Policy Education
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- Created on: 06-02-15 19:00
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- Social Policy
- Conservative Government
- Basic Skills
- Lacked basic skills
- Developmentof YTS
- Core curriculum
- Labour gov. concerned about informal teaching methods
- Basic Knowledge and core subjects taught
- New Vocationalism
- unemployment because education failed to provide skilled and motivated workers
- commitment to train workers
- hide unemployment figures
- Examples
- Criticisms
- Marxism- serve needs of capitalism through expense of youths
- Phil Cohen- YTS not job skills but attitudes and values needed. Lowers aspirations and serves capitalism
- Dan Finn- YTS provides cheap labour, keeps unemployment down and reduces social unrest
- Rob Strathdee- not pro ducting a high skill high income society, low paid low status jobs
- Carol Buswell- channel girls into low paid womens employment
- Assisted places scheme- gives poor people a free place in an expensive school if they pass 10-15% of exam
- Basic Skills
- Education Reform Act 1988
- Marketization
- introduces market forces of consumer choice
- reduces direct state control of education
- Increases competition between school
- state leads to low standards, inefficiency and lack of choice for parents
- Schools would be run like businesses
- Schools that provide them with desires would thrive and the others would go out of business
- DAVID described this as parentocracy
- in the education market, power shifts away from the producers
- encouraged diversity
- meets the needs of the pupils and raises educational standards
- OFSTED
- sponsorships of schools
- Open enrolment
- Formula funding
- opt out of LEA control
- Problems
- reproduces inequalities
- BALL - inequality through league tables and funding formula
- Myrh of parentocracy
- BALL- is a myth
- GERWITZ- only mc can take advantage
- LEACH AND CAMPOS- move into catchment area
- Testing
- Pupils aged 7, 11 and 14 would be tested
- helps an informed choice
- National Curriculum
- meaningful comparison could be made
- make moving between schools easier
- Criticims
- Choice- schools choose better pupils
- League Tables- ranked schools based on results
- Selection- schools didn't choose disabled or challenge children
- Marketing Schools- increased competition
- Marketization
- Labours work based programmes
- Apprenticeships
- extended apprenticeship scheme
- offer more level 2 and level 3 NVQs
- Young apprenticeships for kids aged 14-16
- Increased flexibility programmes
- pupils aged 14-16 allowed to attend college 1-2 days a week
- encourage disaffected young pupils
- Vocational GCSES- replaced GNVQs to give them the same status as GCSEs
- Diplomas
- combination of vocational and academic learning
- encourage 14-19 yr olds in further study
- Apprenticeships
- Labour Policies
- THOMPSON- schools can break free from mass education
- education has become customised
- exaggerates diversity
- WHITTY- EMA's encourage children to stay on at university
- TROWLER-policies such as increased funding and raising standards have evidence that they are reducing inequalities
- Gender
- c19 girls excluded from education
- girls had to achieve a higher mark than boys to pass the 11+
- since 1970s there has been GIST to reduce gender differences in subject choice
- Ethnicity
- ASSIMILATION- assimilating ethnic groups into british society
- MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION- value cultures of all students
- SOCIAL INCLUSION- equally included in order to raise academic achievement
- Conservative Government
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