Education policy: lesson 2 Flashcards
What are educacional policies?
Stratergies introduced by government which are aimed at education
What are examples of educational policies?
- free school meals
- school leaving age
- educational maintenance allowance
What are the aim of educational policies?
- raise and maintain educational standards
- create and maintain equality
What do educational policies exist in response to?
- ensuring equality of opportunities
- ensuring selection & choice
- control of education
- marketisation & privatisation
What does ensuring equality of opportunities mean?
Extent that government policies positively and negatively impact equal opportunities
What does ensuring selection and choice mean?
What types of schools should exist
What does control of education mean?
Who oversees and dictates the curriculum
What does marketisation and privatisation mean?
- Marketisation: Process of introducing market forces such as competition & consumer choice
- Privatisation: Involves transferring ownership & control of these areas from state to private companies
What is the history of educational policies?
- no state schools pre 19th century
- 1880 school became compulsory up until 13 due to industrialisation
- 1880 type of education based on social class
What is ascribed and achieved status?
Ascribed: status assigned at birth
Achieved: status achieved through ability
Define meritocracy?
Social system where people have equal opportunity based on ability
What was the Education Act 1944?
- the tripartite
- 11+ results determine routes pupils would take
- grammar school, secondary modern, technical
What was The Comprehensive System 1965?
- introduced to overcome tripartite system of class division
- 11+ abolished
- grammar and secondary modern abolished
What do Functionalists believe about The Comprehensive system?
- promotes social class integration
- meritocratic
- allows identification of skills
What do Marxists believe about The Comprehensive System?
- allows class inequality through streaming & labelling
- not meritocratic
- denies working class equal opportunity
What 4 dimensions of equality of educational opportunity did Gilborn & Youdell identify?
- access
- circumstances
- outcome
- participation
