Educational Policy and Inequality Flashcards
David
Describes marketised education as a parentocracy - gives parents more choice and raises standards.
Ball and Whitty
Notice how marketisation policies such as exam league tables and the funding formula reproduce class inequalities by creating inequalities between schools.
Bartlett
league table results encourage cream skimming and silt shifting
Gewirtz
parental choice. discusses privileged skilled choosers, disconnected local choosers and semi skilled choosers.
Ball
parentocracy is a myth
Benn
New Labour paradox - Labour’s policies to tackle inequality and commitment to marketisation contradicts.
Ball
promoting academies and free schools has led to both increased fragmentation and increased centralisation of control over educational provision.
Buckingham and Scanlon
According to them, the uk’s four leading educational software companies are all owned by global multinationals.
Molnar
Schools are targeted by private companies because schools by their nature carry enormous goodwill and can thus confer legitimacy on anything associated with them.
Beder
UK families spent £110,000 in Tesco supermarkets in return for a single computer in schools.
Hall
Sees academies as an example of handing over public services to private capitalists, such as educational businesses.
Stone
argues that black pupils do not fail for lack of self esteem so MCE is misguided
Mirza
sees little genuine change in policy. she argues that instead of tackling the structural causes of ethnic inequality such as poverty and racism, educational policy still takes a soft approach that focuses on culture, behaviour and the home.
Gillborn
institutionally racist policies such in relation to the ethnocentric curriculum, assessment and streaming continue to disadvantage minority ethnic group pupils.
