Education And Poilcy Flashcards
Tripartite system
The butler education act where students took an 11+ test placing them into either grammar or secondary modern or technical
Tripartite systems positive
Provides meritocracy and guaranteed social mobility for working class who got into grammar schools and helped middle class
Tripartite system criticisms
Myth of meritocracy promotes gender inequality dividing social classes by educational ability at young age. Social class background affects results rich kids can afford tuition girls have to achieve higher marks to get in
The comprehensive system
Abolishment of 11+ system and to now create education equal for all kids regardless of ethnicity social class or gender
The comprehensiveness system positives
The system reduces class gaps in intelligence and provides broad curriculum and helps kids
The comprehensive system criticisms
Streaming Douglas students streamed into groups based on ability creating educational inequality and labelling theorist ball
Marketisation policies
Privatising education allowing schools to compete and give them choice and parentocracy giving students education controlled by parents
New right vocational training
New right believed that the youth unemployment was the primary reason for economics decline. They created schemes so school could increase their skills using apprentice ships to give them NVQ
New criticism of vocational training
Hidden political gender to socialise to conform to new right ideology with cheap labour
Cohen
the purpose of vocational training was to create good attitudes and disciplines ranther than actual job skills. Young people accept low skilled jobs
Marketisation and parentocracy
New right theorists support the education reform act which encourage marketisation of school where schools compete with each other where they are privatised less government control.
Davis
Talks about parentocracy in the educational reform act where power moved from schools and teachers but toward consumers parents to encourage diversity parents more choice and drives up standards and reduced reliance of government using ofstead league tables
Criticism of marketisation
League tables ensure students get good results so good schools in demand and competition forces them to be selective with recruiting mainly middle class more funding for popular schools and better overall education
Ball
Marketisation gives the myth of parentocracy which not true as not all parents have to e same choice
Gerwitz
Middle class have more economic cultural capital so can take advantage of schoo choices moving house for better schools myth of meritocracy
