Policy And Inequality Flashcards

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1944 education act

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Influenced meritocracy and brought about the tripartite system as children were selected and allocated to different types of secondary school

Grammar schools - access to none manual jobs and higher education

Secondary modern: practical curriculum and access to manual work for pupils who failed their exams

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The comprehensive school system

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Overcame the class divide and made education more meritocratic

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Marxist and functionalist view on education

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Functionalists see education as fulfilling its function such as social interrogation

Marxists see education as serving the interests of capitalism by reproducing and legitimising class inequality

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Marketisation

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Basically a school selling itself to parents.it reduces the state control over parents

Examples of marketisation: formula funding : schools receiving the same amounts for more pupils, schools having to compete to attract pupils

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What does David argue?

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Argues marketised education as a parentocracy ( rule by parents )

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Ball and Whitty

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Marketisation policies such as exam league tables and funding formula reproduce class inequalities

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Cream skimming

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Schools being more selective and choose their own customers , attracting MC pupils.

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Silt shifting

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Good schools can avoid taking less able pupils and damage the schools exam league table position.

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Funding formula

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Schools are given money for how much pupils they attract

Unpopular schools loose income as they attract less pupils

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Gerwitz

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Differences in parents economic and cultural capital leads to less class differences.

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What are they types of parents in parental choice

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Priveleged skilled choosers,disconnected local choosers and semi skilled choosers

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What is the role of privileged skilled choosers

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Professional MC parents used economic and cultural capital to gain educational capital for their children

THEY ARE WELL EDUCATED

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What are the disconnected local choosers

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WC parents, restricted choices by their lack of educational and cultural capital l

DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND SCHOOL ADMISSIONS, less confident with schools

Limited funds

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Semi skilled choosers

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WC Parents, ambitious for their children , lacked cultural capital

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Myth of parentocracy

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Education system sees school as for the benefit of parents

BALL ARGUES THAT PATRNTOCRACY IS A MYTH

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Policies to reduce inequality

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Education maintainace allowances

Payments to students from low income backgrounds to help them stay in school

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Academies

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Schools were encouraged to leave local authority control , removing the focus on inequality

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Free schools

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Set up and run by parents, teachers , businesses and faith organisations rather than the local authorities

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Fragmentation

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The comprehensive system is being replaced by diverse provision

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Centralisation of control

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Government has power to make schools into academies ,, these schools are funded by the government

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Privatisation

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Transfer of public assets eg: schools to private companies

EDUCATION BECOMES A SOURCE OF PROFIT

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Define ESI

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Education services industry

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Cola-isation of schools

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Private sector penetrating schools indirectly eg : VENDING MACHIENES

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What does the Marxist Stuart Hall say?

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Academies are an example of public services being handed to private capitalists

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Althusser ideological state apparatus

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The repressive state apparatus
Maintain the rule of the bourgeoisie

The ideological state apparatus

Maintain the rule of the bourgeoise by controlling people’s ideas values and beliefs