Eval Raising standards Flashcards
Competition benefits richest in society - Gerwitz
Middle classes were much better able to take advantage of school choice as a result of their possession of cultural capital
Privileged skilled choosers = M/C lots of economic/cultural capital to gain for children, full advantages of choices available to them and understandard the importance of education, finances to pick the best schools
Semi - skilled choosers = wc but ambitious for their children. Didn’t have cultural capital and found it hard to understand the education market and relied on people’s opinions about schools.
Disconnected choosers = wc parents restricted by their lack of economic and cultural capital. It was difficult to understand school admission procedures. Looked at safety and facilities rather than league tables. No money to travel to a school of their choice.
illustrates that an increase in house competition between schools will result in the best schools forming in the most affluent areas (where the privileged skilled choosers will go), meaning that standards are only raised in certain areas
standards only raised fo privileged class e.g. M/C culture is rewarded (Bourdieu)
formal education created by mc and uc bureaucrats and politicians
- designed to incorporate mc values
- students with high cultural capital more likely to be successful in education
wc children can’t contextualise learning lik the mc
- mc parents transmit social and cultural capital e.g. revision, practice
- raising standards don’t matter because wc lack cultural capital needed to take advantage of opportunities provided by new policies
makes formal education solely focused on outcomes rather than the value of education in itself - Illich
suggests de - school society and get rid pof formal education as its too ‘managerial’ - performance based, teaching focused on exams no enrichment to young lives
- young people should be taught by people with knowledge and skills in specific areas , advocates for learning webs and learning in an informal way according to our interests
argues policies aim to raise standards from Government view - doesn’t mean young people are educated
High focus on academic skills end up prioritising certain subjects courses and neglects students with vocational skills - Davis and Moore
Role allocation key idea
most skilled = more functional important jobs
less skilled = receive education to prepare for least functional important jobs - still important for functioning society
policies aiming to raise standards of education prioritise academic subjects + skills, neglect vocational skills
- students don’t utilise less skills to participate less important roles of society
