Educational Theory - New Right Flashcards
1888 Education Reform Act
aimed to improve educational standards through marketisation and by creating parentocracy
marketisation of schools
making school compete with one another for state funding based off of performance. this effectively makes them into competing businesses within the education market
parentocracy
views parents as customers as parental choice is key to making marketisation work. if a school is oversubscribed, it will receive a larger budget
private schools and marketisation
private schools have always worked int his way ie fee paying and compete against one another for customers.
new right beehives al schools should work this way but state school receive funding from the state.
league tables
NR belive schools should publish their grades on league tables as a means of raising school standard.
schools will strive for better results as no parent would send their kids to a bottom tier school.
National Curriculum
all schools are required to teach the same subject content from ages 7-16 as well as making sure to teach core subjects ie english maths and science.
OFSTED
a govt organisation that inspects schools.
OFSTED raises standards by putting failing schools under new management and shutting down schools that consistently fail.
Formula Funding
funding to a school is based on how many students are enrolled there. undersubscribed schools receive less and decrease in size and eventually shut down.
open enrolment and selection
parents can select multiple schools to send their kid to but only specify on one as their first choice. schools can then select students based on criteria ie having a sibling at the school.
specialist schools can take in those who score high on aptitude tests
faith schools can select students based on faith
Evaluation - supporting
UK isn’t high ranked on PISA League Tables showing competition is needed for further improvement in standards
schools compete for MC pupils as they are seen as easier to teach
GCSE pass rate i steadily increasing as competition also increases
Evaluation - criticising
competition is selective and creates a knowledge hierarchy
children know how to answer tests as they are taught core subjects well enough but they don’t know what else to do with this knowledge ie apply it to the real world.
