EDUCATION key words Flashcards
Academies
Publicly funded independent local schools that provide a free education
Assisted Places Scheme
A government scheme providing money to allow able children with modest backgrounds to be educated in fee paying schools
AVEC
Vocational A level to replace the GNVQ
Beacons Schools
Government designation awarded to outstanding primary and secondary schools in England and Wales
BTEC
Business and Technology Education Council - a vocational qualification
Catchment area
The population around a particular school
City technical colleges (2)
A secondary school that focuses on vocational training
City technology college
A school sponsored by private industries
Comprehensive school
A state school that doesn’t select its intake on academic achievement
Compensatory education
compensation
Policies intended to offset the effects of socio-economic disadvantage
Comprehensivisation
Secondary schools being organised from selective schools to comprehensive ones
Correspondence principle
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
Cultural Capital
Bourdieu argues that middle class parents endow children with a cultural capital
Cultural deprivation
The failure of certain groups of children in education is the result of a culturally deprived home background
Cultural Reproduction (SRS)
Marxist developed theory. A process whereby Social Relationship of Superiority in the class structure are recreated generation by generation
Curriculum 2000
A levels being replaced by AS, or A2 levels
Education priority areas
Areas in England and Wales that are in need for particular support in primary education
Education action zone
A labour government initiative to support schools that are seen as failing
Elaborate and restricted language codes
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
Ethnocentric curriculum
The idea that the national curriculum is based in one particular cultural background, and thus biased
EMA
Educational Maintenance Allowance - a financial scheme to students who’s parents have a certain level of taxable income
GNVQ
General National Vocational qualification. Generally involved a lot of coursework, but ended in 2007
Grammar schools
Fully selective state funded schools in England and Northern Ireland
Hegemony values
Dominant groups in society are filtered down to the masses covertly
Hidden curriculum
Things taught in education that do not form part of there programme of courses / subjects
Ideological state apparatus
Louis Althusser (neo-marxist) says state agencies prime function is to secure the compliance of subordinates
Labelling theory
Agents of social control attach stigmatising stereotypes to particular groups
League tables
Tables of schools and colleges ranked by number of students who’ve passed exams
Marketisation
Educational provision being determined by market forces
Meritocracy
Occupational positions that are based on merit rather than factors like gender, class, wealth or ethnicity
Meritocratic
A system where advancement is based on individual ability
National curriculum
What every pupil in every state must learn, decoded by the government
New Vocationalism
Measured in the 1980s that reemphasised the importance of work related education
NVQ
National Vocational qualification - a word based qualification
Party of esteem
Equal status, equal value
Private schools
Fee paying schools
Public school
the TOP fee paying schools
Public subcultures
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
Role allocation
The capacity of the education system to select individuals and place them in to appropriate occupational positions
Self-fulfilling prophecy
The labelled correspond tot eh label - in terms of delinquent behaviour or educational achievement
Setting
Divides pupils into groups (sets) fro particular subjects based on their ability in those subjects
Streaming
Pupils are divided into separate streams according to their ability. e.g. Top - Latin, bottom - woodwork
Specialist schools
Schools which focus their curriculum within specialist areas of work e.g. businesses, languages
Secondary Modern school
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
SATS
(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
Sure start
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
Technical schools
Training children in mechanical and scientific subjects. Focus of the school is to provide engineers, scientists and technicians
T levels
New qualifications from the conservative government in 2019. Links to new vocationalism
Tripartism
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
Vocational work
Work related learning
