Policies Flashcards
What are the problems with marketisation?
- Schools cannot be run like businesses because education required caring and nurturing, pupils require being treated like individuals
- Leads to only focusin on getting good grades when education is also about learning about other things such as life
- Widens gap between working class and middle class
- Reproduces inequality through exam league tables and funding formula
What did Tony Blair’s new labour government introduce in an attemp to make it more equal?
Believe their should offer compensatory education to children from poorer backgrounds. To raise achievement levels of students who come from materialley and culturally deprived family backgrounds.
Policies included
EMA (education maintenance allowance)
Aim higher programme
Education action zones
city academies create inequality of inner london school
What are the benefits of marketisation?
Aims to drive up standars in education through creating competiton
- The more successful a school the more funding they get (funding formula)
- Parents and pupils are able to acess information about school results before making a choice on one of them
- OFSTED endure underperforming schools are made to improve (or else be shut down)
- National curriculum
What is slit shifting?
Good schools can avoid taking less able pupils who are likely to get poor results
What was the first education system?
The tripartite system from 1944 (1944 Education Act)
What is the tripartite system?
Where children were selected and allocated into one of three types of secondary school (grammar, secondary modern and technical), according to their aptitudes and abilities based on the 11+ exam
What were the grammar schools?
Offered an academic curriculum and access to non-manual jobs and higher education. They were for pupils with academic ability who passed the 11+. Pupils were mainly middle class
What were secondary modern schools?
Offered a non-academic ‘practical’ curriculum and access to manual work for pupils who failed the 11+. These pupils were mainly working class
How did the system fail at promoting meritocracy?
It reproduced class inequality by channeling the two social classes into two different types of school and offered unequal opportunities, and reproduced gender inequality by requiring girls to gain a higher pass mark to get into a grammar school
How did the tripartite system legitimise inequality?
Through the ideology that ability is born. It was argued that ability could be measured early on in life through the 11+ when in reality children’s environment greatly affects their chances of success
