Marketisation

Question 1

Examples of marketisation policies

Answer 1

Publication of league tables and OFSTED reports

Tuition fees for higher education

Question 2

What does David argue?

Answer 2

Marketisied education is a parentocracy which raises standards of education and encourages diversity

Question 3

What do Ball and Whitty argue?

Answer 3

Marketisation policies reproduce class inequalities by creating inequalities between schools

Question 4

What does Bartlett argue? What are the repercussions?

Answer 4

It leads to:
Cream skimming- better schools can be more selective with pupils
Silt shifting- better schools can avoid taking in pupils who will damage their league table position

Schools with poor league table positions must take on less able WC pupils so their positions remain low

Question 5

How many schools did Gerwitz study? Where were these schools?

Answer 5

14 secondary schools in London

Question 6

What was Gerwitz’s main findings?

Answer 6

MC parent’s cultural and economic capital leads to class differences in how they exercise choice of secondary school

The three different types of parents

Question 7

What are priviledged skilled choosers and what sociologist cam up with this term?

Answer 7

MC parents who can use their cultural and economic capital to gain educational capital

Gerwitz

Question 8

What are disconnected local choosers and what sociologist came up with this term?

Answer 8

WC parents whose choices were restricted by a lack of wconomic and cultural capital e.g. they did not understand the school’s admission procedures

Gerwitz

Question 9

What does Ball argue about marketisation?

Answer 9

Gives the appearance of parentocracy to make it appear as though it is fair when as Gerwitz shows, MC parents are more able to take advantage of choices available

Question 10

What od Leech and Campos observe?

Answer 10

MC parents can afford to move into catchment areas of better schools