Education

Question 1

What are the criticisms of the 11+ exam?

Answer 1

Benefited middle class students
Money bias
Gender bias
Could seriously dishearten a pupil

Question 2

What are some strengths of the 11+ exam?

Answer 2

Provided potential social mobility

Promoted meritocracy

Question 3

Why did the New Right alter the education system?

Answer 3

They claimed the current system was failing and standards had to be raised

Question 4

What did the New Right suggest be introduced to help the school system?

Answer 4

The Market principles of competition and choice so that schools would compete with eachother

Question 5

What act was introduced by the New Right to help improve the education system?

Answer 5

The Education Reform Act 1988

Question 6

What did The Education Reform Act (1988) introduce?

Answer 6

Standardised tests for all schools

A national curriculum

Formula funding (funding based on pupil number)

Open enrolment

League tables

Question 7

What are the strengths of The Education Reform Act (1988)?

Answer 7

Granted parents and children choice

Massively improved female education

Improved result’s

Improved standards overall

Question 8

What are the weaknesses of The Educational Reform Act (1988)?

Answer 8

Began the privatisation of education

Caused schools to favour more pupils over quality

Limited choice remains for the working class

Question 9

What is Cultural Deprivation?

Answer 9

Where a person has ‘inferior’ norms, values, skills and knowledge

Question 10

What are some INTERNAL reasons for girls improvement in education?

Answer 10

More female role models

Girls are treated better in education

Feminisation of education

Introduction of coursework

Positive teacher-pupil interactions

Question 11

What are some EXTERNAL factors of girls improvement in education?

Answer 11

The rise of feminism

Changes to the job market

Female role models

Question 12

What are some INTERNAL reasons for boys under attainment in education?

Answer 12

Lack of male role models in education

Feminisation of education

‘Ladish’ subcultures

Lower expectations and false confidence given by teachers

Negative teacher-pupil interactions

Question 13

What are some EXTERNAL reasons for boys under attainment in education?

Answer 13

Decline in traditional male jobs

Gendered socialisation (men are socialised to be more aggressive and active)

Lack of educated male role models

Question 14

What are EXTERNAL factors that race can have on attainment?

Answer 14

Cultural deprivation

Attitudes and values

Family structure

Material deprivation

Question 15

What are some INTERNAL factors that cause race to have an effect on attainment?

Answer 15

Labelling

Institutional racism

The Ethnocentric curriculum that’s taught

Pupil subcultures

Question 16

How does race contribute to an individual being at greater risk of material deprivation? (3 reasons)

Answer 16

More likely to live In economically depressed areas

Cultural factors such as purdah in some Muslim households prevent women from working

Lack of complex linguistic skills or foreign qualifications that aren’t recognised in the UK

Question 17

What is the Marxist view on education?

Answer 17

It rewards conformity

Transmit the ruling class ideology

Prepares pupils for their role in the workplace

Reproduces new generations of workers for the capitalist system

Question 18

What is the functionalist view of education?

Answer 18

They believe that education prepares children for society by passing on key information needed to thrive in the world

Question 19

What is the feminist reasoning for difference in attainment at school (Girls side) ?

Answer 19

Changing attitudes- Sue Sharpe

Different experiences of gender- Becker

Gendered socialisation- Angela Mcrobbie

Formation of Gender identities- Anne Oakly

Question 20

What did Paul Willis find in his study “Learning To Labour “ about the value placed on education by Working class males

Answer 20

That “having a laff” was valued far more than gaining an education

Mental labour is seen as inferior to physical labour

Question 21

What did Becker talk about

Answer 21

Labelling and the perfect student in teachers eyes

Question 22

Who built on Beckers work?

Answer 22

Abraham

Question 23

What did Abraham write about teachers labelling of students ?

Answer 23

Typical girl: studious and well-behaved

Typical boy : trouble maker

Question 24

What is the feminist reasoning for the difference in attainment at school (Boys side) ?

Answer 24

Changing attitudes in groups - Paul Willis

Differences of gender’s experience- Becker

Gendered socialisation- Mac An Gal (socialisation)

Formation of Gendered Identities - Mac An Gal (boys told off for being like girls)

Question 25

What are some strengths of the Interactonist approach to education?

Answer 25

Multiple studies back it