Education: Topic 6- Education policy and inequality~ Vital vocab

Question 1

What are academies?

Answer 1

Receive funds directly from the government and are run by an academy trust. Have more control than community schools.

Question 2

What is assimilation?

Answer 2

The process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society’s majority groups values, behaviours and beliefs of another group, whether fully or partially.

Question 3

What is centralisation of control?

Answer 3

Central government alone had power to allows schools to become academies or allow frees schools to be set up.

Question 4

What is comprehensive school?

Answer 4

A school that does not select its intake based on academic achievement.

Question 5

What is cream skimming?

Answer 5

‘Good’ schools can be more selective, choose their own pupils and recruit high achieving, M/C pupils.

Question 6

What is disconnected local choosers?

Answer 6

W/C parents whose choices were restricted by their lack of economic and cultural capital.

Question 7

What is the educational policy?

Answer 7

All laws and regulations that are designed and implemented to achieve particular educational goals.

Question 8

What is fragmentation?

Answer 8

The comprehensive system being replaced by a patchwork of diverse provision, leads to greater inequality in opportunities.

Question 9

What are free schools?

Answer 9

Funded by the government but are set up and run by parents, teachers organisations, etc, rather than local authority.

Question 10

What is a grammar school?

Answer 10

A state school where pupils are admitted by abilities.

Question 11

What are local authorities?

Answer 11

An administrative body that is officially responsible for all the public services and facilities in a particular area.

Question 12

What is marketisation?

Answer 12

Schools are encouraged to run like a business rather than in control of local government.

Question 13

What is parentocracy?

Answer 13

‘Rule by parents’. The education system is based on an ideology of parent choice of a school.

Question 14

What is a privileged skilled choosers?

Answer 14

Mainly professional middle class parents who used their economic and cultural capital to gain educational capital for their child.

Question 15

What is a secondary modern school?

Answer 15

An education to children not selected for grammar or technical schools.

Question 16

What is a semi-skilled choosers?

Answer 16

Mainly W/C parents but unlike disconnected local choosers, their ambitious for their children.

Question 17

What is slit-shifting?

Answer 17

‘Good’ schools can avoid taking less able pupils who get poor results and damage league table position.

Question 18

What is tripartite system?

Answer 18

Created in the 1944 education act. Dividing school into grammar schools, technical schools, and modern schools, through 11+exams.

Question 19

What is privatisation?

Answer 19

The transfer of public assets and resources from stats control into the hands of the private sector

Question 20

What is a private sector?

Answer 20

The part of the economy that isnt controlled by the state

Question 21

What is a public sector?

Answer 21

Owned and controlled by the government amd therefore subject to government funding