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EDUCATION key words Flashcards

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Academies

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Publicly funded independent local schools that provide a free education

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Assisted Places Scheme

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A government scheme providing money to allow able children with modest backgrounds to be educated in fee paying schools

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AVEC

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Vocational A level to replace the GNVQ

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Beacons Schools

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Government designation awarded to outstanding primary and secondary schools in England and Wales

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BTEC

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Business and Technology Education Council - a vocational qualification

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Catchment area

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The population around a particular school

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City technical colleges (2)

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A secondary school that focuses on vocational training

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City technology college

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A school sponsored by private industries

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Comprehensive school

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A state school that doesn’t select its intake on academic achievement

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Compensatory education

compensation

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Policies intended to offset the effects of socio-economic disadvantage

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Comprehensivisation

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Secondary schools being organised from selective schools to comprehensive ones

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Correspondence principle

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Marxist theorist Bowles and Gintis development saying “what happens in schools happens in the work place”
i.e. Education is seen as a direct proportion for a Childs future - an unequal divine of labour

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Cultural Capital

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Bourdieu argues that middle class parents endow children with a cultural capital

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Cultural deprivation

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The failure of certain groups of children in education is the result of a culturally deprived home background

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Cultural Reproduction (SRS)

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Marxist developed theory. A process whereby Social Relationship of Superiority in the class structure are recreated generation by generation

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Curriculum 2000

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A levels being replaced by AS, or A2 levels

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Education priority areas

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Areas in England and Wales that are in need for particular support in primary education

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Education action zone

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A labour government initiative to support schools that are seen as failing

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Elaborate and restricted language codes

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Bernstein says elaborate speech codes are used by the middle classes; it is characterised by grammatically complex sentence structures, context free and gives the children an ability to describe abstract concepts

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Ethnocentric curriculum

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The idea that the national curriculum is based in one particular cultural background, and thus biased

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EMA

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Educational Maintenance Allowance - a financial scheme to students who’s parents have a certain level of taxable income

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GNVQ

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General National Vocational qualification. Generally involved a lot of coursework, but ended in 2007

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Grammar schools

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Fully selective state funded schools in England and Northern Ireland

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Hegemony values

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Dominant groups in society are filtered down to the masses covertly

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Hidden curriculum

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Things taught in education that do not form part of there programme of courses / subjects

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Ideological state apparatus

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Louis Althusser (neo-marxist) says state agencies prime function is to secure the compliance of subordinates

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Labelling theory

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Agents of social control attach stigmatising stereotypes to particular groups

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League tables

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Tables of schools and colleges ranked by number of students who’ve passed exams

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Marketisation

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Educational provision being determined by market forces

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Meritocracy

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Occupational positions that are based on merit rather than factors like gender, class, wealth or ethnicity

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Meritocratic

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A system where advancement is based on individual ability

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National curriculum

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What every pupil in every state must learn, decoded by the government

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New Vocationalism

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Measured in the 1980s that reemphasised the importance of work related education

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NVQ

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National Vocational qualification - a word based qualification

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Party of esteem

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Equal status, equal value

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Private schools

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Fee paying schools

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Public school

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the TOP fee paying schools

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Public subcultures

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Identified by S.Ball, said school contributed to the formation of 2 distinct subcultures - pro-school and anti-school
Pupils belonging to the anti-school culture were either passive or deliberately rejecting the values of school

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Role allocation

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The capacity of the education system to select individuals and place them in to appropriate occupational positions

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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The labelled correspond tot eh label - in terms of delinquent behaviour or educational achievement

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Setting

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Divides pupils into groups (sets) fro particular subjects based on their ability in those subjects

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Streaming

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Pupils are divided into separate streams according to their ability. e.g. Top - Latin, bottom - woodwork

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Specialist schools

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Schools which focus their curriculum within specialist areas of work e.g. businesses, languages

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Secondary Modern school

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One of the three schools in the tripartite system. For pupils who did not achieve scores in the top 25% of the ELEVEL PLUS exam

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SATS

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(Standard assessment test) tests given at the end of year 2, 6 and 9. Shows a Childs progress compared with children born in the same month

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Sure start

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UK government initiative in England, “Give children the best possible start in life” with improvements of childcare, early education, health and family support.
Has an emphasis on community development

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Technical schools

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Training children in mechanical and scientific subjects. Focus of the school is to provide engineers, scientists and technicians

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T levels

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New qualifications from the conservative government in 2019. Links to new vocationalism

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Tripartism

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System of selective education where there are three types of schools: Grammar, secondary technical and secondary modern schools
Was criticised for its bias in favour of the middle class

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Vocational work

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Work related learning

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