Education policies privatisation and globalisation Flashcards
What is meant by the privatisation of education?
transfer of public assets to private companies.
- Education is becoming more privatised causing for it becoming a profit for capitalists
- Large scale school projects often include PPS (public-private partnerships) which provides capital to design,build and finance these schools
What does Ball argue about the benefit for businesses?
these businesses invested into schools expect to generate 10x the amount of profit than other jobs
WHat do Buckingham and Scanlon argue about privatisation of education
the four leading educational software are all own by MNCs so many educational contracts within the UK are sold on by the original company to others such as banks and investment funds.
Often private companies are exporting UK education policies → other countries
And then providing the services to deliver these policies
what is the consequence of privatisation?
As a result nation states are becoming less important in policy making which is shifting to a global level which is also privatised
What exam board is an example of a foreign private owned educational company?
Pearson edxcel
What does cola-isaiton of schools mean?
Private sector indirectly penetrating education e.g through vending machines and the development of brand loyalty is occurring
What does Ball argue about the negative aspect of this cola-isation of schools?
doesn’t always benefit school a cadbury campaign scrapped as school would have to eat 5,440 to quality for a set of volleyball posts
What does Ball argue about education being a commodity?
privatisation is becoming a key factor in shaping education
* Policy is increasingly focused on moving educational services out of the public sector controlled by the state and now controlled by private companies
- In the process education is being turned into a object of profit making a commodity
what does hall argue about education as a commodity?
sees academies as an example of handing over public services to capitalists and that neo liberals claim privatisation and competition to drive up standards is a myht used to legitimate the turning of education into a source of profit
What are the policies on Gender?
- 19th century → girls excluded from under education
- Tripartite system → 11+ grades adjusted for girls having to achieve a higher markk than boys to pass
- Since 1970s policies such as STEM and GIST → = opportunity
What are assimilation policies from the 60s/70s?
focused on need for ethnic minority students to assimilate into mainstream culture as a way or raising achievement
*Real cause of underachievement is racism as some already know english so is not the issue *
What does the multicultural education of the 80s/90s mean?
80s/90s aimed to promote achievement of children from ethnic groups by valuing all cultures in the curriculum
*MCE critical race theorists argue is ‘tokenism’ picks out stereotypical features of cultures and fails to tackle institutional racism *
What was the social inclusion of the 90s ?
- detailed monitoring of exam results by ethnicity
- Attending to race relations act → legal duty to promote racial equality
- English as an additional language programmes
