NR PERSPECTIVE ON EDUCATION Flashcards
What do the NR think
The state cannot meet people’s needs and that people are best left to meet their own needs.
Through the free market
Favour marketisation of education
Similar ones between NR and functionalists views of ed.
Believe that some people are naturally more talented than others.
Run on a meritocratic principles of competition.
Prepares young people for work.
Ed should socialise pupils into shared values like competition
What is the ‘one size fits all’ principle by NR
School imposes Uniformity and disregards local needs
Why are state education systems unresponsive and inefficient
The local consumers who use the schools (parents, pupils and employers) have no say.
Schools that get bad grades or waste money are not answerable to their consumers.
Why is it bad if a school has lower grades and wastes money?
Lower standards of achievement for pupils.
Less qualified workforce.
Less prosperous economy
What is the NRs solution to these problems
Marketisation of education
(Creating an education market)
What do they think that competition between schools and empowering consumers will do?
Bring greater diversity
Greater choice
Greater efficiency
Increase schools ability to meet the needs of pupils, parents and employers
