The New Right and Education
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- Created on: 10-03-21 13:03
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- The New Right and Education
- Reflects the ideas of Functionalism with regards to social solidarity and meritocracy
- Education should NOT be about promoting equality (unlike Functionalists) but should instead be concerned with training the workforce
- Should ensure the most able students are recruited into the most important jobs and others are prepared for lower level employment
- Education doesn't currently achieve these goals because it is run by the state
- Should ensure the most able students are recruited into the most important jobs and others are prepared for lower level employment
- Chubb and Moe- Marketization
- Puts education in the hands of consumers
- Supply
- Demand
- Competition
- Choice
- This will bring greater diversity, choice and efficiency to schools and increase their ability to meet everyone's needs
- It should be run like a business
- Schools should not automatically get funding from the state regardless of how well they perform
- Instead, each family would be given a voucher to spend on buying education from a school of their choice
- Forces schools to become more supportive of parents' wishes since the vouchers would be the main source of the school's income
- Schools would have to compete for business, thus improving their product for their customers
- Forces schools to become more supportive of parents' wishes since the vouchers would be the main source of the school's income
- Instead, each family would be given a voucher to spend on buying education from a school of their choice
- Puts education in the hands of consumers
- Criticisms
- The real cause of failure is not state control but social inequality and inadequate funding of state schools
- Marxists argue that education does not impose a shared national culture- but imposes the culture of a dominant minority ruling class. It devalues the culture of the working class
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