New right views on the role of education

Question 1

Role and function 1

Answer 1

improve standards through reducing state involvement & increasing a Parentocracy

Question 2

Improve standards through reducing state involvement & increasing a Parentocracy

Answer 2

League tables and ofsted
- Chubb and moe

Question 3

Chubb and moe

Answer 3

• American schools failed disadvantaged groups, did not produce skills in pupil that would benefit the economy
• private schools better had a quality education than state.
• So they too promoted the same solution of creating a parentocracy.
• suggested the idea of handing out parental education vouchers to spend on a school of their choice, and thus remove automatic funding from state. - - Therefore the schools need the vouchers as their source of funding, and making schools responsive to pupils and parents - ensuring higher quality education.

Question 4

Improve standards through reducing state involvement & increasing a Parentocracy (league tables and ousted)

Answer 4

• new rights believe that there is a state monopoly on education
• this creates a system where there is no competitive edge and no reason for institutions to improve
• the solution to this is to create similar conditions in the public sector that would enable the free market to be unleashed
• this would allow the consumer to decide and take power away from the bureaucrats and teachers and give it back to the parents which creates a ‘parentocracy’
• the education system should operate on the same principles as the market for goods and services
• individuals should be able to make choices about education in the same way as they make choices about food to eat etc..
• schools would therefore respond to what consumers want and more resources will go to the most successful in attracting customers.
• If the standards of all schools were able to be improved then standards of all students would improve all students to be able to reach their potential
• education reform act

Question 5

education reform act

Answer 5

• reflects new right ideas
• introduced league tables and the creation of ofsted
• league tables: ranking system that compares schools performances in public exams
• they rank schools and educational institutions based on various performances such as test scores, graduation rates
• ofsted: office for standards in education
• established in 1992
• a government organisation that inspects and regulates uk education and training

Question 6

role and function 2

Answer 6

promotes traditional ‘conservative values; and tries to promote/enforce a shared British culture

Question 7

promotes traditional ‘conservative values; and tries to promote/enforce a shared British culture

Answer 7

section 28 of local government act 1988

Question 8

promotes traditional ‘conservative values; and tries to promote/enforce a shared British culture (section 28 of local government act 1988)

Answer 8

• conservative government have attempted to influence the core curriculum to promote traditional and conservative, social and cultural values
• based around the importance of conventional, heterosexual family structures etc…
• conservative commentators are usually critical of the current state of education, claiming that it has become too liberal in its values which leads to the degradation of society
• believes that if we fail to education the next generation into traditional values, those traditions will be lost

Question 9

section 28 of local government act 1988

Answer 9

• prohibited the promotion of homosexuality
• this was by local authorities (schools)
• declared that a school could not intentionally or promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality or promote the teaching in any school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a family relationship
• in place until 2000

Question 10

role and function 3

Answer 10

encourages values of competition and meritocracy

Question 11

encourages values of competition and meritocracy

Answer 11

murray

Question 12

encourages values of competition and meritocracy (murray)

Answer 12

• argued that education in the us had become ‘too romantic’ and has neglected the simple realities of pupils abilities
• not everyone is as smart as each other
• education has lost its sense of meritocracy by attempting to make everything fair which fails those who are more gifted
• education asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile and asks the wrong things from the middle and asks too little from the top
• means that too many people go to university which devalues higher education degrees
• this is bad as it means that society is fundamentally dependent on how well educated the academically gifted are
• promotes that education should be tougher and more challenging to promote meritocracy

Question 13

role and function 4

Answer 13

transmits and teaches vocational skills

Question 14

transmits and teaches vocational skills

Answer 14

• vocationalism
  YTS
• NVQ
• GNVQ

Question 15

transmits and teaches vocational skills
(vocationalism)

Answer 15

• schools should have a lesser focus on cultural awareness and more focus on specific work based skills.
• New vocationalism: the introduction of Youth Training Schemes, NVQs and GNVQs (a range of schemes and qualifications aimed at NEETS to gain skills and employment