New Right Views On education Flashcards
New right
The new right have a similar perspective on education to functionalists. However, they think that contemporary state education fails to perform the role it should perform because of centralised state control and policies that try to standardise and improve equality.
New right
They argue that for education to be properly meritocratic in the way described by Davis and Moore, it needs to be more competitive, more about choice and winning and losing and less about collaboration and fairness.
New right
the idea of sports’ days where everyone gets a prize and argue that this approach fails to provide people with the drive and ambition to achieve in today’s society.
New right
There should be competition within schools, competition between schools and as well as socialising pupils with the skills to prosper in a market economy, which will increase educational standards
New right (Chubb and Moe)
Chubb and Moe argued that the reason private schools (in the USA) performed better than schools in the public sector was because the schools were answerable to paying parents.
New right
New Right sociologists agree that education should impart shared values but again are concerned about the way this happens in practice.
New right
New Right sociologists agree that education should impart shared values but again are concerned about the way this happens in practice.
New right
New Right was concerned that children educated in local authorities that had left-wing councils might learn history that was not sufficiently patriotic or there might be radical ideas about gender or sexual orientation that would not reflect the views of the children’s parents.
