Neoliberalism| New Right Perspective on Education Flashcards
everything they say about education, examples, theories etc.
What is Neoliberalism based on?
Favours free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.
What does Neoliberalists argue about the value of education?
It lies in how well it enables the country to compete in the global marketplace.
What kind of approach does Neoliberalism aim for?
what do they want schools to be more like?
Hint: consumerism.
Schools to be more like businesses, empowering parents and students as consumers and allowing for competition.
New Right’s idea?
A state cannot meet people needs, the people must meet their own through a free market.
New Right believe that the way for people to meet their needs is through favouring the Marketisation of Education.
What is this?
It will bring greater diversity and increase ability to creates the efficiency for their school.
Similarities between Functionalist and New Right?
E.g: Both believe that some people are naturally talented than others.
Keywords: meritocratic, socialise.
- idea of school running on meritocratic principles.
- education should socialise pupils into shared values, (such as competition to instil a sense of identity.)
What is the key difference between Functionalists and New Right?
New Right does not believe that the education system is achieving these goals.
What is the key reason for failure in school as told by the New Right?
The problem is that it is run by the state.
What approach does the New Right argue the education system takes?
‘One size fits all’.
What is the underlying cause of the local consumers?
what are they disadvantaged at?
The local consumers have no say and then the state becomes unresponsive.
What impact does the school give local consumers when the school waste money or get poor results?
The consumers are not answerable, there is nothing they can do to advertise.
What does the school’s wastage of money mean of the standard of the achievement of pupils?
economical.
Lower standards; less qualified workforced ans less prosperous economy.
Name the two New Right sociologists.
Chubb and Moe.
Chubb and Moe:
How was United States ‘state-run’ education a failure?
- not creating equal opprtunities.
- fails to produce pupils with the skills needed for the economy.
Chubb and Moe:
Benefit of private run schools due to consumer responses?
Higher quality education.
Chubb and Moe:
How many pupils from low income families were there in the 1,015 state and private high schools?
60,000.
Chubb and Moe:
What did their study of the 60,000 pupils conclude about the low income families?
It was a parent survey; what did they find that the students did?
Low-income families do 5% better in private than in state schools.
Schools maybe ‘turned around’?
Chubb and Moe:
Introducing the Marketisation of Education will do what for schools?
*Consumers = parents.
Allow consumers to shape schools to meet their own needs and would improve the quality and efficiency.
Chubb and Moe:
With this Marketisation strategy, what did they propose to the families in that they would be given?
Vouchers to use and spend on buying education e.g school of their choice.
Chubb and Moe:
Eventually, how would these vouchers impact the school and the consumers?
E.g They earn money from these buys which helps them improve the school.
Consumers would use it on a school of their choice, contributing to the production of the school.
Attract customers with this so that they can become more efficient.
What are the two roles for the state?
Keywords: compete, frame, transmit.
States imposes a framework on schools which they have to compete for.
States insure that schools transmit a shared culture.
What are some examples of the types of framework the schools produce?
Publishing League tables, Ofsted inspection reports, exam results.
