New right views on education

Question 1

New right

Answer 1

Suggests that schools should be concerned about training the workforce. Making sure that the most able students have their talents developed and are recruited into the most important jobs, while others are prepared for the lower-level employment

Education should socialise young people into collective values to build social cohesion and social solidarity, to ensure a stable society.

Question 2

Chubb and moe 1990,1992 American study

Answer 2

Suggest that state and local authorities are not the best way of achieving this because they provide a single type of school for all students.

They argue there should be a free market in education, with different types on independently managed schools and colleges, which are run like businesses and tailored to the needs of local communities

Reccomend that parents should be given the educational vouchers to spend on the school of their choice. Thisnisnparentocracyv

Question 3

Marketisation of schools

Answer 3

Competition for students and funding will lead to a more efficient education system which delivers better value for taxpayers.

This is referred to as the marketisation of education. Schools operate like supermarkets, forced to supply cheaper and better quality products fir their customers.

Question 4

Tutor2u Yt video on new right

Question 5

Evaluation of the new right on education

Answer 5

Reason why fee paying schools do better than state schools is more complicated than just being due to competition. Children who attend fee paying schools often have privileged lives

Excessive competition in schools may harm children. So it is not really a good thing.

Question 6

New right and functionalist perspective comparison

Answer 6

• the most talented and skilful members of society deserve higher rewards than the less skilled.
• education systems should be meritocratic

-education should produce workers with appropriate skills

-education systems need to respond to globalisation

Question 7

Functions

Answer 7

Secondary socialisation by teaching social rules and how to abide by them

Allocating roles/sifting and sorting

To teach specialist skills required fir work

Question 8

How are schools meritocratic

Answer 8

Pupils in school are all judged by the same values - all sit the same exams

Students are encouraged to make an effort and they will rewarded for this

Those with higher qualifications will go onto further education and gain the best jobs.