Marketisation of Schools LT6

Question 1

What is Marketisation within schools?

Answer 1

Schools attract customers (parents) by competing with each other (new right view)

Question 2

How has a education market been created?

Answer 2

• Reducing direct state control
• Increasing competition of both parents and schools

Question 3

What policies promote the education market?

Answer 3

• League tables
• Open enrolment
• specialist schools
• Allowing drop out of local control
• free schools

Question 4

David (1993)

Answer 4

Marketised education leads to parentocracy, shifting power away from produces to consumers

Question 5

Who looked into the advantages of marketisation?

Answer 5

• Bartlett (1993)
• Gerwitz (1995)
• Ball (1994)

Question 6

Bartlett (1993) +

Answer 6

League tables encourage ‘cream skimming’ good schools can be more selective

Question 7

Gerwitz (1995) +

Answer 7

Advantageous for MC who are privileged choosers that can use cultural & economic capital to manipulate system

Question 8

Ball (1994) +

Answer 8

Marketisation rises standards

Question 9

Who criticised marketisation?

Answer 9

• Bartlett (1993)
• Gerwitz (1995)
• Ball (1994)

Question 10

Bartlett (1993) -

Answer 10

good schools ‘slit shift’ avoid taking in pupils likely to get poor results and damage reputation

Question 11

Gerwitz (1995)

Answer 11

WC parents are disconnected choosers and have restricted choice because of lack of cultural & economic capital

Question 12

Ball (1994) -

Answer 12

Found schools spend more time improving image and less attention on students