Globalisation and Privitisastion of Education

Question 1

What are 2 main ways globalisation has impacted educational policy?

Answer 1

1. The privitisastion and marketisastion of education. 2. The use of international comparison to form policies.

Question 2

What does Gidden say about globalisation?

Answer 2

The intensification of world wide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many a mile away and vice versa.

Question 3

What are 8 ways the education system is different than the past.

Answer 3

1. Equality in subject choice for different genders. 2. Teachers can’t partake in corporal punishment. 3. More exams. 4. Longer. 5. Culturally diverse curriculum. 6. National Curriculum. 7. More range of extra curriculars. 8. Technology based resources.

Question 4

What are the 3 T’s of Globalisation?

Answer 4

1. Trade. 2. Transport 3. Technology

Question 5

How was trade changed education?

Answer 5

Its easier to trade supplies between different countries, cultures are shared, companies have begin demanding different skills, teachers

Question 6

How has transport changed education?

Answer 6

You can study abroad. There are school trips going abroad helping you learn about different cultures. Teachers can work abroad.

Question 7

How has technology changed education?

Answer 7

There’s increased interconnectedness. Recourses like Microsoft Office and AI. There are online classes and schools.

Question 8

What would postmodernists say about globalisation?

Answer 8

Its good because it provides a diversity of choice and we can pick and mix our own identities.

Question 9

What’s an example of diversity being and not being embarced in schools?

Answer 9

Culture days. However we are taught British values.

Question 10

What are 4 ways schools compete with each other?

Answer 10

1. International league tables. 2. Grades such as grade 9 linear gscses. 3. Ofsted. 4. League tables

Question 11

How much money do the UK government and localities spend on education on average?

Answer 11

£88 billion. That means there’s an enormous potential market for private investors who can provide services in the education sector.

Question 12

What did Ball and Youdell come up with?

Answer 12

The two main types of privitisastion, endogenous and exogenous.

Question 13

Whats endogenous privitastion?

Answer 13

Privitisastion within the education system as schools act more like business. These were first established by conservative governments and continued by laboutr and sped up by the coalition government with rapid expansion of academies and free schools. This is where staff pay and contracts are often decided by the school leading to the range of unqualified teachers on low pay and weaker contracts.

Question 14

Whats exogenous pivitisastion?

Answer 14

Privitisastion from outside the education system. Opening up of state education to profit making business who can manage or deliver part of the education system that was usually ran by the state.

Question 15

What did Hancock say?

Answer 15

He estimated that education exports from Britain to markets such as Brazil and China were worth £18 billion to the UK economy each year.

Question 16

What is the PISA?

Answer 16

Program for International Student Assessment. This involves conducting tests in moths, reading and collaborative problem solving among representative samples of 15 year old’s from around the world. In 2015, over 70 countries participated. These are used to monitor a countries education system in a global context and find its strengths and limitations.

Question 17

In 2018 what place did the UK rank?

Answer 17

Tenth

Question 18

What country ranked the highest in the PISA test?

Answer 18

China

Question 19

What have surveys about the PISA showed?

Answer 19

They have begun to influence educational policies in many countries. They often see reassessment of existing policies such as in 2012 when OFSTED offered a solution when the UK came 26th in math’s out of 64 countries. These policies often are based on succeeding countries.

Question 20

What did Alexander come up with?

Answer 20

The idea of a PISA panic. The search for miracle cures. He came up with 3 examples of policies implemented after these panics. 1. The national literacy and numeracy strategies, introduced by labour this introduced a set of minimum hours for math’s and literacy each day. 2. Slimming down the national curriculum, Gove slimmed English, math’s and science to include what he called “core essential knowledge that other nations pass onto their children.” 3. Raising the academic requirements for trainee teachers from 2012, this was derived from Finland who had been for years been one of the leaders in educational development.

Question 21

What did Oates say about PISA?

Answer 21

It helps as it is useful to show what is humanley possible for children to achieve at different ages.

Question 22

What did Kelly say about PISA?

Answer 22

They are based on a very narrow view of education

Question 23

What are 4 advantages of PISA?

Answer 23

1. They are useful to see whether education spending matches achievement, if spending is high but results are low the government can try and find out why. 2. Oates. 3. They provide evidence for policy makers wanting to learn from different countries. 4. Functionalits would say that providing marketisastion encourages competition and therefore better standards.

Question 24

What are 3 limitations of PISA?

Answer 24

1. Kelly. 2. Tests do not mean that education is recieved better or worse in other countries, there’s wider social factors to be considered with validity and reliability. 3. Marxists would say that the government is just trying to exploit the working class by getting the most able people for Labour.

Question 25

What would postmodernists argue about PISA?

Answer 25

It’s a means of enhancing and improving the education system such as: Chinese/london maths programme , comparative research data, virtual classrooms, Swedish free Schools. By introducing virtual classrooms it improves the life chances of children in poorer countries. However it could be said that it is only advantageous for countries who have the power and wealth to improve their education systems.

Question 26

What would Marxists say about globalisation linking to cultural imperalism?

Answer 26

The power of large Western organisations such as unicef and unescorted often impose western ideals as what constitutes education. The form of education seemed superior may not fit the needs of a less developed country which is a form of cultural imperalism.

Question 27

What would femenists say about the globalisation of education?

Answer 27

All females don’t have access to education in the world therefore they won’t benefit equally to the changes in UK policy based on PISA results.

Question 28

What would Marxists say about the markitisastion of education globally?

Answer 28

It becomes completion rather than what is appropriate for the cultural, social and emotional needs of the students such as seen in the adrenaline drips in Chinese students and the high suicide rate on 17-24 year old in China and South Korea.

Question 29

What may be “wrong” a agricultural countries education system?

Answer 29

They rely on unskilled and cheap labour force than an educated one making the PISA comparisons unfair.