Educational Policies Flashcards

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Tripartite System

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1944 Education Act- aimed to bridge the gap through meritocracy, 11+ through ‘ability testing’
3 types of school
-Secondary modern
-Grammar
-Technical

Legitimised inequality- ideology it is inborn, success depedent on early ability (not environment)

Reproduced- channeling two different classes into two different types of schools

1944

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Comprehensive school system

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11+ system along with grammars was to be abolished
-However not all LEAs opted to ‘go comprehensive’
-As a result grammar secondary divide still prominent

1965

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Ford

Functionalist criticism

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Functionalists argue comps promote social intergration by bringng children of social classes together
-However she found that there was little mixing between classes, loss of social integration

1969

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Education Reform Act

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Marketisation
-Reduces state control
-Increases competition

1988

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Parentocracy

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Idea of ‘free choice’
-Pulication of league tables and Ofsted reports
-Formula funding
-Opt out of LEA

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David

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Marketised system is a parentocracy
-Argues power shifts from the producers to the consumers
-Encourages diversity between schools

1993

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Bartlett

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League Tables
-Cream-skimming -schools can be more selective
-Silt-shifting -good schools csn avoid taking undesirable students as it damages position

1993

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Funding Formula

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Schools allocated funds based on how many pupils it attracts

However produces more segregation- Bartlett

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Gerwitz

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Parental choice
-14 London secondary schools
-Type of parent determined how far they could excersise their choice
-Privaledged skill chooser- MC
-Disconnected-local chooser- WC
-Semi-skilled chooser- WC (higher aspiration)

1995

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Myth of parentocracy

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Reproduces and legitamises class inequality thorugh concealing true causes and justifying existence
-System provides the myth that parents have free choice

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Leech + Campos

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Selection by mortgage
Fake address for catchment appeal
Friends for admissions benefit

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New Labour

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Education Action Zones
Aim Higher
Education Maintenence
National Literacy Stratergy

1997-2010

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Benn

labour criticism

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New-labour paradox
-EMAs to keep students in HE, however raised tuition fees
-Neither abolished or removed charitable status from private schools

2012

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Conservative policies

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Acadamies- opt out of LEA control
Free schools- improve standards via decentralised control
FSM
Pupil premium

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Ball

free school criticism

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Fragmented Centralisation
-F- comp system replaced by a patchwork of diverse provision, increases inequality of opportunity
-C- central government alone determines whether a school can become an acadamey or not

2011

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Pollack

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Blurring the public/ private boundary
-Senior officials leave to set up and work for priv sector education businesses
-Companies bid for contracts
-Flow of personnel allows for companies to buy ‘insider knowledge’

2004

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Buckingham + Scanlon

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Privatisation + Globalisation of education policy
-Foreign owned education services

-4 leading ed-software firms owned by multinationals, Disney, Hasbro and Vivendi

-Nation states becoming less important in policy making which is being shifted to a global level

2005

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Molnar

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Cola-isation
-Schools targeted by private companies as an environment for product endorsement as they ‘confer legitimacy with anything associated with them’

2005

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Cola-isation

criticisms

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Ball- 5,540 chocolate bars = volleyball posts
Beder- £110,000 spent Tesco = laptop

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Hall

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Neo-liberal revolution
-Acadamies- handing public services over to private capitalists
-Raising standards through promoting competion is a myth used to legitimate the turning of education into a source of private contracts

2011