SECTION B: New rights perspective on education:

Question 1

What is the new rights approach known as?

Answer 1

The conservative political ideology.

Question 2

Central principle:

Answer 2

The state cannot meet people’s needs and that people are best left to meet their own meets through the free market.

Question 3

Free market:

Answer 3

• Also known as marxisation.
• The process in which market principles and practices are introduced into areas previously immune from the workings of a market.

Question 4

1960s comprehensive:

Answer 4

• Introduction of comprehensive schools.
• Tackles inequality.
• This system is not working, because it was driven by the local education authority and exclusively state funding.
• 1988 Educational Reform Act: This system brought in the market is action by process.

Question 5

Examples of marketisation policies into education:

Answer 5

• Reducing state control over education.
• Increasing competition between school and parental choice of schools. Parentocracy.
• Publication of Ofsted inspectors. Which aims to look for: teaching, learning, safeguarding, behaviour and students.

Question 6

Key ideas to the New Rights theory:

Answer 6

• Reduction of state control.
• Reduction in government spending.
• Marketisation and competition.
• Vocalisation.

Question 7

Reduction in state control:

Answer 7

• Individuals must be able to use their own initiative and enterprise.
• Schools were stiffed from running their own affairs because of excessive interference by bureaucrats in local education authorities.

Question 8

Reduction in government spending:

Answer 8

• Government expenditure was wasteful.

- Less money could be spent on administrates educational advisors and support services.

Question 9

Marketisation and competition:

Answer 9

• Goods and services are best delivered through competitive marker.
• Public service should be organised on the same principle, rather than one organisation providing all educational services in one area.
• Should be a choice of providers competing with one another in an education market.

Question 10

Vocationalism:

Answer 10

• Education can help to support economic growth.

- Less emphasis should be placed on academic subjects and more emphasise on vocational education.

Question 11

Neo- Liberal views:

Answer 11

• Conservative PM: Margaret Thatcher: in favour of private business and the free market. Believing that competition between companies drives innovation and encourages successful.
• Previous secretary for Education: Michael Gove: Views education as important for a successful economy.

Question 12

Concept of free market:

Answer 12

Refers to a system in which people are free to buy and sell what they wish. In the free market, producers have to provide what consumers want or they will not be able to sell their products.

Question 13

Conclusion for Neo-liberals:

Answer 13

Takes a less positive view of education than functionalists, believing that education needs to be run more like a business.

Question 14

Social democratic view:

Answer 14

Believe that education should be essential in promoting equality of opportunity in a meritocratic system.