New Right View of The Role of Education

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How is the New Right view of education similar to that of functionalists?
They agree that some people are naturally more talented than others and they agree on the functions that education should serve.
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What do the New Right believe the functions of the education system should be?
The New Right believes that educations should instil a sense of national identity, transmit a shared culture and values, and serve the economy by preparing young people for work.
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What is the difference between the New Right and the functionalist view of education?
The New Right believe that state education fails to meet the goals, whereas functionalists think it is sufficent.
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Why is the state education system failing?
State education imposes uniformity and ignores local needs. They are not answerable to their consumers so there are lower standards of achievement for pupils than private schools, and they fail to produce pupils with the skills needed by the economy.
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How would you evaluate the view that state control is the reason for low educational standards?
Critics argue that the real cause of low educational standards is social inequality and inadequate funding of state schools.
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Which sociologists propose a solution for the failure of the state education system, and what is it?
Chubb and Moe (1990) call for the introduction of a market system where each family is given a voucher to spend on education from a school of their choice.
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How does this market system improve quality of education?
As the vouchers are the schools' main sources of income, this forces them to be more responsive to parents' wishes. Schools would have to compete to attract customers by improving their product, the quality of education they provide.
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How would you evaluate the view that competition between schools leads to higher quality of education?
Ball (1994), a Marxist, argues that competition between schools benefits the middle class, who can use their cultural and economic capital to gain access to more desirable schools.
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According to Chubb and Moe (1990), what are the two roles for the state in education?
1) The state should impose a framework which schools have to compete within so parents can make an informed choice between schools, e.g. Ofsted reports and league tables.
2) The state should ensure that schools transmit a shared culture e.g. the National
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How would you evaluate the view that the state should impose a national curriculum?
There is a contradiction between the New Right’s support for parental choice on one hand and the state imposing a compulsory national curriculum on all its schools on the other.
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How should education affirm the national identity?
The curriculum should teach English literature and emphasise Britain’s positive role in world history, and there should be a Christian act of worship in school each day because Christianity is Britain’s main religion. This would integrate pupils into a si
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How would you evaluate the view that education should impose a shared national identity?
Marxists argue that education, rather than imposing a shared national culture, imposes the culture of the ruling class and devalues the culture of the working class and ethnic minorities.
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The New Right believes that educations should instil a sense of national identity, transmit a shared culture and values, and serve the economy by preparing young people for work.

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