New Right Perspective On Education

Question 1

New Right say that the state has too much control in Ed, what has this resulted in?

Answer 1

Resulted in inefficiency, national economic decline and lack of personal initiative.

Question 2

They believe that the state cannot meet pupils needs, why?

Answer 2

A state-run education system, inevitably ends up as ‘one size fits all’. Does not meet individual needs.

Question 3

What do the New. Right say about State-run schools?

Answer 3

State-run schools are not accountable to those who use them. Schools that get poor results do not change because they are not answerable to their consumers.

Question 4

What do the New Right want to introduce to education?

Answer 4

Make schools more responsive to their consumers.

=Marketisation of Education.

Question 5

What does the ‘Education Market’ do for schools?

Answer 5

• Forces schools to respond to needs of pupils, parents and employers.
• Competition with other schools means teachers have to be more efficient.
• Schools survival depends on the ability to raise achievements.

Question 6

Chubb and Moe (1990) discovered?

Answer 6

• Compared achievements of 60,000 pupils from low income families in 1,015 state and private schools in the USA.
• Data shows pupils from low income families do 5% better in private schools. =State education is NOT meritocratic. Priv schools deliver higher quality ed, answerable to paying consumers.

Question 7

So Chubb and Moe believe the solution is?

Answer 7

Introduce market system in state education. Give control to consumers.

Question 8

New Right want to reduce states role in education but still see a limited use for it?

Answer 8

• State should create framework for competition between schools.
• State has to ensure schools transmit society’s shared culture through a curriculum that emphasises shared national identity.

Question 9

3 Evaluations of the New Right?

Answer 9

> Although School standards have risen, not all due to introduction of a market.
Low standards in state schools are result of inadequate funding, rather than state control of Ed.
Competition between schools benefits M-C, can get children into more desirable schools.

Question 10

What do the New Right believe that is similar to Functionalists?

Answer 10

• Some people are more naturally talented than others.
• Education should be run on meritocratic principles of open competition.
• Education should socialise pupils into shared values and sense of national identity.