Social Policy AS Education
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- Social Policy AS Education
- 1944 Education Act
- Tripartite System
- Grammar Schools
- Usually middle class
- Technical Colleges
- Secondary Modern Schools
- Usually working class
- Legitimates inequality- educational achievement is predetermined by the class you're born in to.
- 11+ Exam- Meritocracy
- Grammar Schools
- Tripartite System
- Comprehensive System
- No more 11+ exams
- Legitimises inquality- The Myth of Meritocracy
- Labelling
- Comprehensive System
- No more 11+ exams
- Legitimises inquality- The Myth of Meritocracy
- Labelling
- Teachers enforce negative labels to working class pupils
- Streaming
- Middle Class pupils are placed higher up- achieve higher status
- Labelling
- Up to LEAs whether Grammar schools were abolished
- Teachers enforce negative labels to working class pupils
- Comprehensive System
- Streaming
- Middle Class pupils are placed higher up- achieve higher status
- Labelling
- Up to LEAs whether Grammar schools were abolished
- 1988 Education Reform Act
- Marketisation and Parentocracy
- Formula Funding
- Schools receive money in correlation to how many pupils they have
- Disadvantages children with Special Educational Needs- They receive the same amount of funding, but often require more
- Schools reluctant to take them on
- Schools need to try and advertise themself in order to gain more pupils
- Those who are in deprived areas often struggle because the students are from working class backgrounds and do not fit the 'ideal pupil' criteria, and are more likely to fail
- Disadvantages children with Special Educational Needs- They receive the same amount of funding, but often require more
- Schools receive money in correlation to how many pupils they have
- Schools need to try and advertise themself in order to gain more pupils
- Those who are in deprived areas often struggle because the students are from working class backgrounds and do not fit the 'ideal pupil' criteria, and are more likely to fail
- Schools become answerable to parents
- Less state control over education
- Exam League Tables
- If schools can place themselves higher in the Exam League tables, they attract more pupils
- Schools receive money in correlation to how many pupils they have
- Disadvantages children with Special Educational Needs- They receive the same amount of funding, but often require more
- Schools reluctant to take them on
- Disadvantages children with Special Educational Needs- They receive the same amount of funding, but often require more
- Schools receive money in correlation to how many pupils they have
- If schools can place themselves higher in the Exam League tables, they attract more pupils
- Formula Funding
- Marketisation and Parentocracy
- 1997 New Labour Policies
- Reducing Inequality
- Aim Higher Programme
- Educational Action Zones
- EMAs
- Whitty- contradiction- EMAs encourage to stay on, tuition fees put off
- Increase sachool leaving age to 18
- Promoting Diversity and Choice
- Applying for specialist status
- Gender policies
- Ethnicity Policies
- Multicultural education policies
- Stereotypical- tokenism
- Social inclusion policies (detailed exam monitoring, funding for EAL programme, helping voluntary groups in black communities)
- Mirza- too soft approach, unlikely to have a lasting impact
- Multicultural education policies
- Postmodernism and New Labour
- Thompson- argues education is becoming 'customised' rather than 'one size fits all'
- However, the curriculum is 'one size fits all'
- Critics say it neglects inequality
- Tackling inequality did occur- increasing funding for state education, raising standards, focus on 'learning society'
- Thompson- argues education is becoming 'customised' rather than 'one size fits all'
- Labour was overtly opposed to public schools and grammar schools, yet they were not abolished.
- Reducing Inequality
- 1944 Education Act
- Grammar Schools
- Usually middle class
- Technical Colleges
- Secondary Modern Schools
- Usually working class
- Pupils who are streamed get 'achieve' higher status. In reality, status is ascribed.
- Marketisation and Parentocracy
- Formula Funding
- Schools become answerable to parents
- Less state control over education
- Exam League Tables
- If schools can place themselves higher in the Exam League tables, they attract more pupils
- If schools can place themselves higher in the Exam League tables, they attract more pupils
- Formula Funding
- Increase competiton between schools- do more to improve grades
- Schools in working class areas close down
- Reducing Inequality
- Aim Higher Programme
- Educational Action Zones
- EMAs
- Whitty- contradiction- EMAs encourage to stay on, tuition fees put off
- Increase sachool leaving age to 18
- Introducing academies
- Promoting Diversity and Choice
- Applying for specialist status
- Promoting Diversity and Choice
- WISE and GIST
- Gender policies
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