Education Flashcards
What is marketisation?
When a school becomes more like a business where parents and children become costumers
Who were Chubb and Moe
They are functionalist who wanted to take features from private schools and introduce them in to state schools (marketisation)
What is parentocracy?
Parents choice
Identify three incentives for schools to get better and raise standards?
League tables
Offsted
Funding formulae
Which Prime minister brought in privatisation?
Margaret Thatcher
Give two examples of businesses where parts have become privatised
The Royal Mail
The NHS
Who is Louis Althusser?
Give a date
A Marxist theorist
1971
What are Louis Althusser’s 3 main theories?
- Ideological state apparatuses
- Reproduction of social class inequality
- Legitimation of social class inequality
What does Louis Althusser believe the government brought in the education system?
He argues that the government designed the state education system as a method to control the population.
what is the funding formula?
What does it do to the school?
It is a certain amount of money for the number of children.
It is an incentive for schools to get more children.
What is meant by selection by mortgage?
Students are selected from school depending on where they live, so if you live in a rich area where the mortgage is high then their children are more likely to go to a good, well equipped school.
What does selection by mortgage do to classes?
It creates a division between rich and poor.
A result of selection by mortgage is that schools are no longer…….?
Meritocratic
According to Marxists what 2 things does state education do?
- gives people skills to work as employees to capitalist employers
- Creates compliant, passive and obedient work force
- It also legitimises social class inequality
Marxists believe state education severs the interest of ……..???
Capitalists
What does the ISA stand for?
Ideological State Apparatus
What does the ISA do, according to Marxists?
Convince you of the ideology of capitalism
Which parts of society would come under the ISA?
Give 4 examples
Churches/ Religion Government Education Media ETC.....
What does RSA stand for?
Repressive State Apparatus
Which parts of society come under RSA?
Give 3 examples
Police
Courts
Army
What is the economic base?
It is where the money in made
The capitalist economic system- production
What s Raymond Boudon’s positional theory?
He believes there is no social mobility and no meritocracy.
If you are born poor then you will die poor… vice versa
what does the ideology of the education system make you believe?
According to Marxists
It makes you believe in
- hierarchy
- being passive
- inequality
Who are Bowles and Gintis?
give a date
They are Marxist Theorists who did a study in 1976 called ‘Schooling in Capitalist America’