Educational Policies Flashcards
Ball and Whitty
Marketisation polices reproduce class inequalities
Barlett
Cream skinning = ‘Good’ schools can be more selective when recruiting pupils
Silt shifting = ‘Good’ schools can avoid taking less able pupils
David
In an education market power shifts from schools to parents
Ball
Parentocracy makes it appear that all parents have the same freedom to choose which school they send their child to
Gerwitz
Differences in parents cultural capital lead to differences in how far they have choice of high school
3 main types:
. Priviliged skilled choosers
. Semi skilled choosers
. Disconnected local choosers
What were functionalist and marxist views on the role of the comprehensive school system
Functionalists = promote social integration, more meritocraric - gives pupils longer to develop/show their abilities
Marxists = reproduce inequality: streaming and labelling
What did the 1944 education act introduce
The Triparite System
Stone
Black pupils don’t fail due to lack of self esteem, Multicultural education is misguided
Gillborn
Institutinally racist policies (ethnocentric curriculum) continue to disadvantage ethnic minority pupils
Allen
Free schools only benefit children from higher educated families
Ball
Fragmentation: Comprehensive system replaced by patenwork of diverse provision
Centralisation: central government have power to require schools
Molnar
Schools are targeted by private sector because ‘schools by their nature carry enormous good will’
^ benefits to schools and pupils often very limited
(cola-isation of schools)
Pollack
Flow of personnel allows companies to buy ‘insider knowledge’
Ball (privatisation)
‘education services industry’
^ private companies in increasing range of activities: building schools…
Privatisation becoming key factor in shaping educational policies
Hall
neoliberal claim that privatisation and competition drive up standards is a myth used to legitimise the turning of education into a source of private profit
