Social Policies and Education

Question 1

what is a SOCIAL POLICY?

Answer 1

a law, action or guideline, created by the government to fix social problems and issues.

Question 2

what was the goal of social policies for education?

Answer 2

to improve the education system.

Question 3

what are the names of the 3 key politicians to do with education?

Answer 3

1- Margaret Thatcher
2- Tony Blair
3- David Cameron

Question 4

what is the order of the EDUCATIONAL TIMELINE?

Answer 4

1- Butler Act 1944
2- Comprehensive Act 1965
3- Education Reform Act 1988
4- New Labour 1997
5- Coalition 2010
6- Conservative 2015

Question 5

what was the aim of the BUTLER ACT 1944?

Answer 5

to create parity of esteem.

Question 6

what is some key info of the BUTLER ACT 1944?

Answer 6

• 11+ exam, determined what school in the Tripartite system students would go to.
• favoured middle class + boys
• disadvantaged working class and girls

Question 7

what was the aim of the COMPREHENSIVE ACT 1965

Answer 7

to create equality and raise standards

Question 8

what is some key info of the COMPREHENSIVE ACT 1964?

Answer 8

• abolished 11+ exam, and Tripartite system
• created State Comprehensive School
• ‘all under one roof’ regardless of class, gender, ethnicity and ability.
• meritocracy, equal chances

Question 9

what are the disadvantages of the COMPREHENSIVE ACT 1964?

Answer 9

• led to teacher labelling
• setting and streaming
• students would be stuck in failing school due to catchment area.

Question 10

who created the Education Reform Act 1988

Answer 10

Margarat Thatcher

Question 11

what are the key points of the Education Reform Act 1988?

Answer 11

• reformed Comprehensive system
• made it so that people could move out of catchment areas for schools
• kept the State Comprehensive school

Question 12

As part of the Education Reform Act, what is MARKETISATION?

Answer 12

the idea that schools advertise and compete against eachother, with market forces to be the best.

Question 13

what were the 4 aims of marketisation?

Answer 13

• increase competition
• raise standards
• increased parental choice
• benefits the economy

Question 14

what did marketisation do to schools and their students?

Answer 14

• schools became a business
• students and their parents became the consumers
• schools made profit, and are consumed by the funding they are given for each student

Question 15

as part of the Education Reform Act, what is open enrolment

Answer 15

there is no fixed catchment area, with parents and students have a free choice of school.

Question 16

what is the NEW VOCATIONAL social policy?

Answer 16

• work based studies in school/colleges, such as engineering, and B-tech subjects.
• aim= help people gain work specific skills/knowledge, but is aimed at the low-skilled, and exploited.
• improved competitiveness and skills

Question 17

what is the NATIONAL CURRICULUM social policy?

Answer 17

• pupils taught same topics in the same subjects, country-wide approach.
• made it easier to compare and measure how people were working

Question 18

what is the NATIONAL TESTING social policy?

Answer 18

• country-wide testing of national curriculum subjects.

- sats, gcses, a-levels, exams and coursework, speaking and listening assessments.

Question 19

what is the OFSTED social policy?

Answer 19

• inspection service that inspects and rates school, based on their standards, outstanding-inadequete
• ensures that children have effective and safe learning environment
• public documents are published

Question 20

what is the LEAGUE TABLES social policy?

Answer 20

• measure/data that show a year groups grades for exams
• these exam results are then ranked from highest to lowest for school in an area
• these are then published to the public

Question 21

what is the FORMULA FUNDING social policy?

Answer 21

• money school receive / child / year
• encouraged ‘marketisation’ + ‘bums on seats’
• more pupils, more money received, more funding = better school

Question 22

what were BARLETT’s two criticisms about what schools do?

Answer 22

1= CREAM SKIMMING 
2= SILK SHIFTING

Question 23

what did BALL say about parentocracy?

Answer 23

=the myth of parentocracy

Question 24

what were the NEW RIGHT’s 4 goals of education

Answer 24

• to boost the economy
• to bring about a skilled workforce, so people give to the economy rather than take.
• creates competition through meritocracy
• to restore self-sufficiency, work ethic + independence

Question 25

what was the first NEW RIGHT reason for creating educational social policies?

Answer 25

they believe that some people are naturally more talented than others, so education needs prepare and teach us values of working hard to achieve.

Question 26

what was the second NEW RIGHT reason for creating educational social policies?

Answer 26

education should be based on meritocracy, which reduces the welfare dependency, as people will work hard, becoming sufficient.

Question 27

what was the third NEW RIGHT reason for creating educational social policies?

Answer 27

education should socialise children into shared values and a sense of national identity.
this reduces welfare dependency as it means that people will want to work for their country and not want to be a burden and take from the welfare.

Question 28

what did CHUBB + MOE say about the fourth reason for creating educational social policies?

Answer 28

state funded schools are not performing to a high enough standard as they are not answerable to a paying customer.

Question 29

what is the main criticism against the NEW RIGHT social policies created?

Answer 29

they created inequalities, and disregarded the fact that people have blocked opportunities.

Question 30

what are the names of the 8 1997 NEW LABOUR Policies?

Answer 30

1- Education Action Zone
2-National Literacy Strategy 
3- Specialist Schools 
4- Educational Maintenance Allowance
5- Sure Start 
6- City Academies 
7- GIST/WISE 
8- ESOL

Question 31

which prime minister introduced the 1997 NEW LABOUR ACT

Answer 31

Tony Blair

Question 32

what were the 4 aims of the NEW LABOUR

Answer 32

1- reduce inequality of achievement
2- promote greater diversity
3- increase choice
4- raise competition

Question 33

what are the 3 arguments against NEW LABOUR

Answer 33

1- how can we have competition and equality at the same time
2- competition produces winners and losers
3- BENN= NEW LABOUR PARADOX, contradiction between competition and equality.

Question 34

what is the COMPENSATORY EDUCATION

Answer 34

to compensate for the social inequalities outside of school that affected educational outcomes.

Question 35

what was the aim of the compensatory education?

Answer 35

‘closing the gap.’

Question 36

what was the problem with the compensatory education?

Answer 36

too expensive, reliant on tax payers
government cannot fund enough so gets rid of them
money cannot be regulated, so may be spent for other uses

Question 37

what did the social democrats say about policies

Answer 37

‘everybody should have equal chances to succeed but they don’t. This would lead to an efficient work force.’

Question 38

what did social democrats say about state schools

Answer 38

state schools can’t deliver required standard of education due to lack of funding. policies do not do far enough in closing the gap.

Question 39

what policies did David Cameron introduce?

Answer 39

• policies
• curriculum/subjects
• schools/universities
• global privatisation

Question 40

what was David Cameron’s policy influenced by?

Answer 40

the increasing globalisation and migration into the UK.