Marketisation policies Flashcards
Chubb and Moe
(New Right perspective)
- Schools should no longer automatically receive funding regarding how good or bad they are.
- Vouchers should be given to families which they can spend on buying education from a school of their choice.
Gerwitz and Ball
Argue competition between schools argue the m/c who use their cultural and economic capital to gain access to more desirable schools.
Bartlett
Cream-skimming and silk-shifting
- Schools do well in league tables
- Parents wan to send their children to these schools
- School select students if there are high amounts of applications
- Recruit high achieving m/c pupils who they know will do well
- Reproduces inequality
Hall
Academies are an example of handing over public services to private capitalists, such as educational businesses.
Neoliberal - privatisation and competition drives us standards is a MYTH used to legitimise the turning of education into a source of private profit
The New Right —- marketisation
favour
A-C economy and educational triage
Explains why schools are under pressure which widens the class gap.
Can create an educational triage which is where they sort out the pupils - blacks and w/c students are labelled with lower abilities which creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.
New Vocationalism 1979
Marxist Althusser
Education system was not provided students with the right skills for the economy so introduced vocational qualifications which also helped tackle employment
Transmits ideology to create submissive workers which continues capitalism
Bowles and Gintis - hidden curriculum social class structure
- People who earn high income is based on class not ability/achievement
- Those denied success blame themselves
- hidden curriculum - teach behaviours and attitudes that are expected t prepare for work place (uniforms, rewards)
