Full 7 Paragraph Plan on how to write Evaluation for New Right Views on Education

Question 1

What will the Introduction Paragraph say?

Answer 1

New Rights believe goods and services are best delivered through a competitive market

Question 2

What does the Introduction say Marketisation has influenced?

Answer 2

Influenced the 1979-90 Thatcher Government

Question 3

What is the point of the first paragraph?

Answer 3

The New Right believes creating competition in Education will raise Educational standards

Question 4

What piece of Evidence is there to support your first point? What does it say?

Answer 4

1988 Education Reform Act, which made it so that schools had to be structured as businesses in order to gain more pupils to get a larger budget

Question 5

What is the link to the supporting point of evidence in the first paragraph?

Answer 5

If schools are more able to see how they perform compared to other schools, they will raise standards

Question 6

Who says the criticism in the first paragraph? What Ideology are they from?

Answer 6

Rikowski, Marxist

Question 7

What does Rikowski’s Criticism in the first paragraph say?

Answer 7

It is wrong to treat Education as a business because it will lead to a focus on profit rather than studnets

Question 8

What is the point of the second paragraph?

Answer 8

The Education systems focus on widening choice and diversity

Question 9

What piece of Evidence is there to support your second point? What does it say?

Answer 9

1988 Education Reform Act, introduced the ability to choose from other schools from the catchment area school

Question 10

In the second point, mention which schools eventually had more of a focus due to the 1988 Education Reform Act

Answer 10

Academies and Free Schools

Question 11

Who makes the criticism point in the second paragraph?

Answer 11

Ball

Question 12

What does Ball say in his criticism in the second point paragraph? Why?

Answer 12

The 1988 Education Reform Act has mostly benefitted middle class pupils due to parentocracy and the likelihood that middle class parents will research in to schools more

Question 13

What is the point in the third paragraph?

Answer 13

The New Right believe that schools should teach subjects to students to help prepare them for work

Question 14

What is the supporting piece of evidence for your third point paragraph? Why?

Answer 14

Lack of employability skills among school leavers created Vocational Education

Question 15

How do you further develop the point in your third paragraph? (Supportive point this is)

Answer 15

BTEC’s and NVQ’s were created to help prepare young people for work better

Question 16

Who says the criticism in the third point paragraph?

Answer 16

Pring

Question 17

What does Pring say in the third point paragraph as a criticism?

Answer 17

It has created the New Tripartism of A Levels, T Levels and Training schemes, with A levels being seen as the highest

Question 18

How do you further develop Prings criticism in the third point paragraph?

Answer 18

Middle class students are more likely to pick A levels, which are seen in a higher esteem so will once again be more employable

Question 19

What is the point of the fourth paragraph?

Answer 19

Schools play an important role in tranmitting the norms and values of society through the formal and hidden curriculum

Question 20

What is the main piece of evidence to support the fourth point paragraph?

Answer 20

National Curriculum in the 1988 Education Reform Act

Question 21

How do you develop your supporting point in your fourth paragraph further?

Answer 21

The standard curriculum has allowed for all pupils to be taught the same subjects and have a value consensus

Question 22

What is the sociologist that supports the point made in the fourth paragraph? What Sociological Theory are they from?

Answer 22

Parsons, Functionalism

Question 23

What would Parsons say in the fourth point paragraph to support the argument?

Answer 23

He argues that school acts as a bridge to wider society so keeping a set of norms and values would be essential for the transition.

Question 24

What is the point in the fifth paragraph?

Answer 24

It explains the underachievement of pupils due to factors outside of school

Question 25

What is the main piece of evidence to support the fifth point paragraph?

Answer 25

Murray argues boys who grow up in lone parent families are more likely to underachieve

Question 26

How do you develop your fifth point paragraph main piece of evidence further?

Answer 26

Murrary says that the boys lack a respectable male role model so they look for one in the media or the streets

Question 27

What is the main point of the criticism of the fifth point paragraph?

Answer 27

Murray is wrong to only focus on cultural factors, instead stating that gaps in technology access also have an impact

Question 28

Who argues with the criticism in the fifth paragraph point?

Answer 28

Smith and Noble

Question 29

What do Smith and Noble say in the fifth paragraph criticism point?

Answer 29

Boys who grow up with little technology to use for studying means they underachieve

Question 30

What is said in the conclusion paragraph?

Answer 30

New Right ideas have influenced Government policies and changed Education

Question 31

What does the “However” part of the Conclusion paragraph say?

Answer 31

Some of their policies have been controversial due to them supposedly mainly benefitting the middle class