Educational Policy Flashcards
the New Right views on education
developed functionalist ideas of social solidarity and the teaching of specialist skills
- additionally, parents should be given choice in their child.s education
- Lea’s are inefficient, prefer free market policies (chubby and Moe - proposed a voucher type policy on education where parents pay for their Childs education and how good it is)
how to achieve marketisation policies The New Right
- competition between schools for the best results, standards would be raised, and thee best schools would be more attractive to parents
- increased choicee for parents - open enrolment
increased involvment of private enterprise within educatio, fudnign form advertising local business and should have funding free from state control
The 1988 Education Reform Act
was an education reform act put forward by the Thatcher government which introduced strong marketisation policies into education
what did the education reform act introduce
- National Curriculem
- Formula Funding
- standardised testing
- parental choice and open enrolment
further development of the 1988 Education Reform act
- introduction of OFSTED
- league tables
what did the Education Reform act 1988 allow for
it allowed for the marketisation and competition between schools, exams results could be compared to see what school achieved the best and therefore was more appealing for parents to send theri children to as well as schools could compete to perform to gain the most funding on the formula funding policy, overall the competitive nature would encourage school to perform better and as a result improve standards
contemporary application of marketisation policies and the education reform act 1988
- standardised testing throughout school life, SaTs and GCSE and A-glevel
- development of educational markets extending from years to higher education
- increased privatisation of education
- wider range of schools
evaluation
– marketisation has been a dominant approach to education for over 30 years
- introduced selection policies that disadvantaged certain social groups
- Gerwitz et al - middle class is advantaged because they can play the system
what are the types of school choosers in parents
-skilled privlaged chooser
- semi skilled chooser
- local or distilled chooser
what is marketisation
- application of market forces to the education system
- promoting more choice in the type of education students receive
- promoting competition between institutions for students
how marketisation is done
Conservative
Education Reform Act 1988
formula funding, national Curriculem, League tables
new universities
how to achieve marketisation policy New Labour
- growth of specialist schools
- faith schools
- introduction of tuition fees
- city academies 2000
how was this achieved marketisation
coalition
- expansion of academies
- pupil premium
- referms to curriculum
- increased tuition fees
- process 8
- free school meal
impact of marketisation
- increased choice of schools
- more private investments into education
- increased university attendance
- increase in a-level and GCSE pass rates
criticisms of marketisation
myth of parentocracy
- selective rather than open enrolment
- teaching how to take the tests and achieve well rather than knowledge
-educational triage