EDUCATION POLICIES - KEY PEOPLE Flashcards
Chubb and Moe
Argue that the ERA did not go far enough to create a market. They believe that students should be
given vouchers; they can then enrol at
any school they choose by giving the
school that voucher. The voucher can then be redeemed by the school for that student’s funding. That would be the only role of government in schools. They therefore argued that the
school system had not been converted into enough of a parentocracy.
Sharon Gewirtz
Gewirtz criticises the idea that open
enrolment has created a ‘parentocracy’, as
she feels it only benefits middle-class
parents. She interviewed middle-class and working-class mothers who were enrolling their students in schools, and found that only middle-class mothers had a good understanding of how the system works. This meant that middle-class children choose where they went to school, but this was not open to all children. She also criticises the idea that the system is a parentocracy, as only middle class parents are able to change the system. This also means that the system is not a meritocracy either.
Alexander
Criticises globalisation of education as a ‘moral panic’ about supposed failings of the UK education system. He sees attempting to implement either Scandinavian models or East Asian models as seeking a ‘miracle cure’ for a problem that doesn’t really exist.
Mitsos and Browne
Have argued that globalisation has created a shortage of traditionally male, working-class jobs, leading to a disinterest in education from this group.
Hancock
Calculated that the UK ‘exports’ $18 billion of education by educating wealthy children from other nations in private schools and universities.
Neil Kinnock
‘Private schools are not incidental to the class system, they are the very cement that divides British society’
Chubb and Moe - Private Schools
Believe that all schools should operate as a marketplace, offering consumer choice. This means that if parents want to pay >£40,000 a year, they should be allowed to. Benefits of going to private schools, then, are a reward for working hard in well paid work.
Sam Friedman
Studied the success rates of graduates of the top 30 private schools, and compared them to students with equivalent grades from state schools. Almost without fail, the private school students did better after leaving school
Alan Milburn
Has argued that old boys networks must be ‘cleansed’ before the UK can really be meritocratic.
