Conservative Social Policy In Education

Question 1

What are all the key words for social policy in education

Answer 1

Equality of opportunity, free market economics, marketisation, national curriculum, league tables, vocational qualifications, attainment targets, parental choice, parentocracy, cream skimming, silt gifting,

Academies, free schools, vocational education, EMA, EAZs,

Fees, alevel reform, cultural capital

Question 2

What are all the key theorists of social policy in education

Answer 2

Margaret Thatcher/

ball et al,

Sharon gerwittz/

Bartlett and Legrand

Tomlinson

Michael Gove

Bordieu

Mackin and vernoit

Question 3

what model did the conservative government make

Answer 3

the free market model

Question 4

what is the new rights view on state run services

Answer 4

they are inefficient, they argue that companies shoukd have to compete for business, thus providing them them with an incentive to improve the product/service they provide. this is called the FREE MARKET

Question 5

what are the three C’s by the new right

Answer 5

consumers

choice

competition

Question 6

what is the national curriculum

Answer 6

to improve standards all students had access to the same high quality curriculum covering a range of subjects. That can be compared on a national scale

COMPETITION

Question 7

what are SATS

Answer 7

attainment to targets- goals which teachers are expected to enable students to reach. These are formal teachr assessments and results are published.

COMPETITIION

Question 7

what are SATS

Answer 7

attainment to targets- goals which teachers are expected to enable students to reach. These are formal teachr assessments and results are published.

Question 8

what are exam league tables

Answer 8

publication of performance tables allowing parents the right to know about comparative school performance. These include test and exam results and absence rates of all schools and colleges .

COMPETITON

Question 9

what are oftsted inspections

Answer 9

published inspections were aimed to ensure that schools and colleges were doing a good job and reports are published

COMPETITION

Question 10

what is formula funding

Answer 10

schools and colleges are funded based on numbers

COMPETITION

Question 11

what is enrolment

Answer 11

parents are allowed free CHOICE of schools, rather than being allocated one.

CHOICE

Question 12

what is gerwitz key study

Answer 12

gerwitz studies the effects of the ducational reforms that had been introduced by the conservatives. She recognised 3 categories of choosers

skilled

semi- skilled

local

Question 13

what is the skilled choosers

Answer 13

1.skilled choosers: middle class parents were usually priveleged or skilled when it came to choosing a school for their children. They had the benefits of time and good social contacts to aid them with finsing the best schools, evaluating league tables and moving to more prosperous areas to ensure they lived within a schools catchments area. If all else fails their finances alowed them to send their children to private education

Question 14

what are semi skilled choosers

Answer 14

semi skilled choosers mainly workign class parents who were ambitious for their children but lacked the social network or practical means to get their children into particular schools

Question 15

what are local choosers

Answer 15

working class parents were local choosers as their access to transport played a big part in their decision, with most working class children being sent to the school closest to their home. Working class parents placed more importance on the preferences of their children than the academic reputation of a school

Question 16

what study was very cimilar to gerwitz study

Answer 16

ball et al’s results were very similar, who also claimed parentocracy was a myth.

Question 17

what did bartlett and Le grand say

Answer 17

they se the competitive systems as resulting in cream-skimming. This is when the most successful schools chery pick the most able students from the wealthiest backgrounds. This obviously increases their success, and becomes a cycle. The opposite of this is silt shifting. WHich is when schools off-load less able pupils or those with learning difficulties as they are expensive to educate and get poor results. It can be said that by setting entrance criteria such as entrance exams, or church attedance, schools are the ones with the choice of consumer, not the other way around.

Question 18

mackin and vernoit

Answer 18

argue that academies brought in by the coalition are serving the needs of the most advantaged and in a lot of cases does not include those children form the most disadvantaged backgrounds. They have a very small amount of children on free school meals.

Question 19

what are alll the conservative education policies

Answer 19

national curriculum, SATS,exam league tables, publoshed ofsted inspections, formula funding, open enrolment.