Educational Policy and Inequality - completed

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  • Created on: 06-04-17 14:48
Social Policy
A plan or guideline developed and used by governments to create, maintain, or change living conditions so that they are conducive to people's health and well-being.
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Tri-Partite System
System of secondary education, based on 3 types of schools. The 11+ exam was used to identify pupils abilities. Those identified as the most acedemic went to grammar schools, some went to technical schools and most went to secondary modern schools.
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Comprehensive Schooling
A secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement.
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Marketisation
The policy of introducing market forces of supply and demand into areas run by the sate such as education. The 1988 Education Reform Act began the markitisation of education by encouraging compotition between schools and choice of parents.
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Parentocracy
'Ruled by parents'. The concept is associated with marketisation of education which is based on the ideology of parental choice.
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Reproduction of Inequality
The idea that inequality is continually socially reproduced because the whole education system is overlain with ideology provided by the dominant group.
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Cream Skimming/ Silt Shifting
Good schools can be selective and choose high achieving pupils.
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Funding Formula
Popular schools receive a higher quantity of funds so they can afford better facilities, this allows them to be more selective of their students. Unpopular schools lose income and fail to attract students or better qualified teachers.
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The Myth of Parentocracy
Appears that all parents have the same freedom to choose which school to send their children to when they dont.
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Open Enrolment
Enrollment at a public school of choice rather than compulsory assignment to a particular school because of where one lives.
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Grammar Schools
Offered an academic curriculum and access to non manual jobs and higher education.
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Academies
All schools in 2010 were encouraged to leave local authority control and become academies. Funding was taken directly to academies by central government and academies were given control over their own curriculum.
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Free Schools
Free schools are set up by parents, teachers, faith organisations or business and not the local authority. Free schools are schools created by parents if they are unsatisfied with state schools.
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Secondary Modern
Offers a non-academic practical curriculum and access to manual work for pupils who failed their 11+.
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Comprehensive School
It was introduced in 1965 by the Labour Party . Its main goal was to overcome the class gap in education and create a meritocracy.
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Catchment Area
The area from which a school's pupils are drawn.
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Privatisation of Education
Education has now become a way to make money. Ball calls this ESI ( Education services industry). Private companies are involved in building schools, providing supply teachers, Ofsted inspection, and some even run local education authorities.
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The Cola-isation of School
Process where the private sector penetrates education indirectly, e.g. vending machines and the development of brand loyalty through displays of logos and sponsorships.
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Commodification of Education
Ball argues that education is being turned into a 'legitimate object of private profit-making' and is being turned into a commodity to be bought and sold in the education market.
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New Labour
Contradiction between Labour's policies to tackle inequality and its commitment to marketisation.
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Coalition Government
Free school meals, for all children in reception, year one and year two. The pupil Premium- money that schools receive for each pupil from a disadvantage background.
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Neo-Liberalism/ New Right
Free market. Each country in the world has the freedom to spend on what they like(school you go to, hospital you attend). Less spending by government so money is saved, so taxes can be lowered. Lower taxes for corporations and regular people.
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System of secondary education, based on 3 types of schools. The 11+ exam was used to identify pupils abilities. Those identified as the most acedemic went to grammar schools, some went to technical schools and most went to secondary modern schools.

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Tri-Partite System

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A secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement.

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The policy of introducing market forces of supply and demand into areas run by the sate such as education. The 1988 Education Reform Act began the markitisation of education by encouraging compotition between schools and choice of parents.

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Preview of the back of card 4

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'Ruled by parents'. The concept is associated with marketisation of education which is based on the ideology of parental choice.

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