New right on education Flashcards

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The New right

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  • Developed functionalist ideas of social solidarity and the teaching of specialist skills
  • additionally, parents should be given choice in their child’s education
  • LEA are inefficient - prefer free market approach (Chubb and Moe)
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How to achieve this

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  • competition between schools for results
  • increased choice for parents - open enrolment
  • increased involvement of private enterprise in education
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1988 Education Reform Act

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Introduced:
- National curriculum
- formula funding
- standardised testing
- Parental Choice and open enrolment
Further development
- Introduction of OFSTED
- League tables

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Application to Contemporary Education

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  • standardised testing throughout school life
  • Development of education markets extending from early years to higher education
  • increased privatisation of education
    wider range of schools
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Evaluation/Criticisms

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  • marketisation has been dominant approach approach to education for over 30 years
  • introduced selection policies that disadvantage certain social groups
  • Gerwitz et al- middle class advantaged as they can play the system
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