Neo Liberal Or New Right View

Question 1

General view of new right?

Answer 1

• developed functionalists view of social solidarity and teaching specialist skills
• believe in marketisation (schools competing like a business) and parentocracy

Question 2

What 3 things did new rights do?

Answer 2

1. Created an ‘education market’ = schools run like businesses and compete —> lead to league tables
2. Schools should teach subjects that prepare pupils for work
3. Schools should all teach the same thing = introduction of the national curriculum

Question 3

What did new rights have a large influence on?

Answer 3

• had great influence on British educational policy

Question 4

Chubb and Moe (1990)

Answer 4

• the reason for private schools in USA perform better than the public sector was because schools were having to be payed for = parents wanted to send their kids there as it was better so don’t mind paying

Question 5

New rights influence on the 1988 Education Reform Act (ERA)

Answer 5

• introduced concepts of marketisation and parentocracy
  FOR EXAMPLE:
• Change formula funding so popular schools obtain more funding
• introduction of league tables so schools can compete with each other

Question 6

New rights influence on 1980s vocational education

Answer 6

• ensure young people were equipped with the ‘right’ skills and attitudes in order to reduce youth unemployment

Question 7

Evaluation of view

Answer 7

• Marxists believe that parental choice reproduces class inequalities = mc use economic, social and cultural capital to ensure children get into good schools
• evidence from the USA and UK = privatisation and marketisation doesn’t actually drive up standards, some schools still are poor quality