Education Policy And Inequality Flashcards

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1
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What created the tripartite system?

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The 1944 Education Act

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2
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What were the three different types of secondary schools?

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Grammar schools
Secondary modern schools
Technical schools

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3
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How were these identified?

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The 11+ exam

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4
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Who were grammar schools for?

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Pupils with academic ability

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5
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Who were secondary modern schools meant for?

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Non academic curriculum
Offered manual work

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How did the tripartite system reproduce class inequality?

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By channelling two social classes into two different types of school
Offered unequal opportunities
High gender inequality by requiring girls to have a higher grade boundary

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When was the comprehensive system introduced?

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1965

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What did the comprehensive school system aim to do?

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Overcome the class divide and make education more meritocratic
Abolished the 11+

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What do functionalists argue about comprehensive schools?

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They promote social integration by bringing different social classes together in one school
More meritocratic

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10
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What do Marxists argue about comprehensive schools?

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Not meritocratic
Still have streaming and labelling

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When did marketisation become a central theme?

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1988 Education Reform Act

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What are some policies to promote marketisation?

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Publication of league tables
OFSTED inspection reports
Business sponsorship of schools
Open endolment
Specialist schools
Formula funding
Schools competing against eachother

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What is parentocracy

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Rule by parengs
Shift power towards the consumers (parents)

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What does publishing league tables do?

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Schools that achieve good exam results are more in demand

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What does Bartlett argue league tables do?

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Cream skimming
Slit shifting

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16
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What is cream skimming?

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Good schools can be more selective
Choose their own customers
Recruit high achieving, mainly middle class pupils

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17
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What is slit shifting?

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Good schools avoid taking less able pupils
Who get poor results
Mainly working class

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18
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What is formula funding

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Allocated funds by how many pupils they get

19
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What does formula funding mean for popular schools?

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More funds
Better qualified teachers
Better facilities

20
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What did gewirtz say about parental choice?

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By increasing parental choice, marketisation advantages middle class parengs as they can use their economic capital to put them in a Better position for schools to choose their child

21
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How is this shown in Gewirtz study?

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By showing three main types of parents
Privileged skilled choosers
Disconnected local choosers
Semi skilled choosers

22
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Who was Gerwirtz study on?

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14 london secondary schools

23
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Who were the privileged skilled choosers

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Middle class
Used economic capital for their child
Possessed cultural capital

24
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Who were the disconnected local choosers?

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Working class
Restricted by lack of economic and cultural capital
Less confident in dealing with schools
Code of travel and distance

25
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Who were the semi skilled choosers?

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Mainly working class, but ambitious for their child
Lack cultural deprivation

26
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Who argues about the myth of meritocracy?

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Ball

27
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What is the myth of meritocracy?

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Where the inequality in education appears as fair and inevitable

28
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What did new labour want to do?

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Reduce inequality

29
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What policy’s did New Labour release to reduce inequality?

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  • designated deprived areas as education action zones by providing them with additional resources
  • The Aim Higher programme to raise aspirations
  • increased funding for state education
30
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What conservative government policys were made in 2010?

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Academies
Free schools
Fragmented centralisation
Policy’s to reduce inequality

31
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What are academies?

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Where funding was taken from local authority and given directly to academies by central government

32
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What are free schools?

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It gives parents and teachers the opportunity to create a new school

33
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What is a disadvantage of free schools?

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Takes fewer disadvantages children from nearby schools
Only benefit children from highly educated families

34
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What is fragmented centralisation?

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Fragmentation= the comprehensive system is being replaced by a patchwork, involving private providers, leads to greater inequality in opportunités

35
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What is centralisation of control?

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Has the power to allow schools to become academies
Funded by the central government

36
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What police’s have been made to reduce inequality?

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Free school meals
The pupil premium- money that schools receive for each pupil from a disadvantaged background

37
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What is the privatisation of education?

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Privatisation refers to a transfer of services from being owned by the state to being owned by private companies

38
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What is privatisation and globalisation?

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Many private companies in the education services industry and foreign owned

39
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What are some examples of globalisation?

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Exam board Drexel is owned by US educational publishing
the UKs four leading educational software companies are owned by global multinationals

40
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What are the types of globalisation?

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Ecological globalisation
Cultural globalisation
Increased migration

41
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What is an example of economical globalisation?

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Factories going abroad for cheap labour
Meaning peopke in England have to get a higher education to get better jobs for more money
As there are no factories

42
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What is an example of increased migration?

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It means Britain is more multi cultural
Changes your experience in education
Learn about different religions in education
More diversity

43
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What is an example of cultural globalisation

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Different values are enforced in the country

44
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What is the cola isation of schools?

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