New Right And Neoliberalist Approach

Question 1

What kind of ideology is New Right?

Answer 1

Political and economical

Question 2

What is competition the key to, according to New Right?

Answer 2

Efficiency and growth
Since it offers choice to consumers, companies need to compete

Question 3

State owned monopolies are…
Competition in a free market is…

Answer 3

…bad
…needed in society to improve quality of goods and service

Question 4

What kind of doctrine is neoliberalism?

Answer 4

Economic

Question 5

According to neoliberalism, what should the state not do?

Answer 5

1. Provide services like education, health and welfare
2. Try to regulate free-market economy

Question 6

According to neoliberalism, what should the state do?

Answer 6

1. Encourage competition
2. Privatise state run businesses and delegation markets

Question 7

What is neoliberalism all about?

Answer 7

Competition
1. In national and global markets
2. To offer choice to consumers

Question 8

According to neoliberalism, what does the value of education lie in and how is that achieved?

Answer 8

How well it enables a country to compete in global markets: marketisation

Question 9

What does neoliberalism say about the marketisation of education?

Answer 9

1. Makes schools compete
2. Empowers consumers to choose
3. Increases standards

Question 10

According to neoliberalism, what policy is needed for the marketisation of education and how does it work?

Answer 10

League tables:
1. Widely available info about a school’s success
2. Schools behaving more like businesses
3. Continual assessment of teachers and students

Question 11

What is privatisation according to neoliberalism?

Answer 11

The process of acting like a business and entering a market

Question 12

According to neoliberalism, what forms does privatisation take?

Answer 12

1. Obtaining income through deals with private companies
2. Subcontracting services to private companies
3. Testing and tutoring services

Question 13

According to Chubb and Moe, why has the education system failed?

Answer 13

1. Has not created equal opportunity
2. Failed the needs of disadvantaged groups
3. Does not provide skills necessary for economy

Question 14

According to Chubb and Moe, why do private schools deliver a higher quality education?

Answer 14

1. They are answerable to paying consumers (parents)

Question 15

What do Chubb and Moe base their arguments on?

Answer 15

Study of educational career of 60,000 pupils from low-income families in 1,015 state and private schools
- they did 5% better in private schools

Question 16

What is C&M’s suggestion for the education system?

Answer 16

1. Introducing a market to state education
2. Voucher system

Question 17

How would the voucher system increase inequalities?

Answer 17

1. Might not cover full education —> MC parents may still be able to afford better education
2. Schools might still select advantaged students

Question 18

(New Right/Neoliberalism) What is the key to success in global markets and why?

Answer 18

Education:
1. Provides skills necessary to compete
2. Provides scientific knowledge and new technology to stay in the race

Question 19

(New Right/Neoliberalism) according to Grubb and Lazerson, what will educational growth lead to ?

Answer 19

Individual salvation

Question 20

What do Brown and Lauder say about schools?

Answer 20

They are on the front line in search for competitive advantage

Question 21

What does Ball say about global organisations?

Answer 21

They are increasingly involved in producing and disseminating educational policies

Question 22

According to New Right/Neoliberalism, what are two roles for the state?

Answer 22

1. Imposing a framework on schools within they have to compete
2. Ensure that schools transmit a shared culture through NC

Question 23

What do Gerwitz and Ball criticise about competition between schools?

Answer 23

It benefits middle classes who would use their cultural capital to gain access to better schools

Question 24

(New Right/Neoliberalism) What is the real cause of low educational status?

Answer 24

1. Social inequality
2. Inadequate funding

Question 25

How does New Right contradict itself?

Answer 25

Supports parental choice but wants a compulsory national curriculum

Question 26

What do Marxists criticise about New Right?

Answer 26

Instead of shared values, RC values are taught

Question 27

What could consumer choice result in?

Answer 27

Provider choice: schools want to stay on top of league tables

Question 28

What do Coffield and Williamson believe?

Answer 28

Schools have been turned into exam factories

Question 29

What are similarities between New Right/Neoliberalism and Functionalism?

Answer 29

1. Believe that some people are naturally more talented
2. Favour meritocratic system: competition and serving needs of economy
3. Education should socialise pupils into shared values and instil a sense of national identity

Question 30

What are differences between New Right/Neoliberalism and Functionalism?

Answer 30

1. New Right believes that aims are not achieved bc education is run by state
2. Uniformity makes schools unresponsive and inefficient
3. Schools don’t have to answer to consumers = lower standards of achievement, less qualified workforce, less prosperous economy