New Right

Question 1

What is the free market and marketisation of education?
NR

Answer 1

• schools should compete for ‘clients’
• for every pupil enrolled the school receives funding
• either the standards of school go up or they fail to attract pupils and receive no funding
• pupils are not equipped with the skills needed
  e.g. health n social care- shortage in jobs- economy fails

Question 2

What are the similarities between the functionalist and new right perspective?

Answer 2

1) inequalities are inevitable
2) value meritocratic ideals, open competition
(role allocation/division of labour)
3) education should socialise pupils
(value consensus/collective conscience)

Question 3

What is the first Key Point of the NR perspective?

Answer 3

1) schools are unresponsive
- ‘one size fits all approach’
= marketise education so they listen to the individuals needs

Question 4

What is the 2nd Key Point of the NR perspective?

Answer 4

2) Give the choice of the school to the parent rather than the catchment area in which they live
- ‘parentocracy’
= 1988 Education Reform Act
= Ofsted n league tables introduced

Question 5

What does the NR perspective think about the education system?

Answer 5

It is not meeting the goals it should be because it is run by the state rather than being privatised

Question 6

Who are Chubb N Moe?

Answer 6

They believed there were 2 roles pf state power
1) impose a strict, standardised framework for school to compete with
- League Tables, formula funding, ofsted
2) all schools transmit a shared untied culture
- standardised national curriculum
- practise of Christian principles

Question 7

Chubb n Moe - Consumer Choice
NR

Answer 7

. private schools are better because there are paying customers
. state schools failed on their goals of creating equal opportunities for disadvantaged
- conducted surveys of parents and concluded that schools should earn funding through good performance by giving parents an education voucher

Question 8

What is a criticism of the NR theory?

Answer 8

CONTRADICTORY
They want parents to have freedom and choice but at the time time want a strict curriculum in place

Question 9

How did Gerwitz criticise the NR theory?

Answer 9

She said that marketisation benefits the MC and disadvantages the working class
- ignores wider social inequalities within education and places all the blame onto schools

Question 10

How do Marxists criticise the NR theory?

Answer 10

argue that schools don’t transmit a shared culture only a culture of the ruling class which is the dominant culture