Social Policy & Education Flashcards

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1
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List 4 educational policies since 1944

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1944; Butler Act
1964; Comprehensive Schooling
1988; Baker Act
2010; Academies Act

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What made the Butler Act a ‘tripartite system’?

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3 schools;

1) Grammar Schools
2) Secondary Moderns
3) Technical Schools

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5 Critiques of the Butler Act

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1) Bipartite system as few technical schools existed
2) Tripartite system caused social division
3) 11+ Exam was culturally biased
4) Girl’s exam results lowered
5) 11+ Exam created a s.f.p

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3 functions of the Butler Act

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1) Selection process
2) Meritocratic schooling
3) Free, compulsory education

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3 Pros of the Comprehensive Schooling Act

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1) No social division
2) Enabled students to work at their own pace (Banding)
3) No labelling as failures

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3 criticisms of the Comprehensive Schooling Act

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1) Schools too large and impersonal
2) Still social division as pupils only from immediate area
3) Intelligent pupils held back by less academic environment

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What 4 things did the Baker Act stand for?

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Freedom
Choice
Standards
Quality control

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4 Critiques of the Baker Act + The National Curriculum

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1) National curriculum too bureaucratic
2) National Curriculum ethnocentric
3) SATS still resulted in negative labelling
4) OFSTED reports invalid due to Hawthorne Effect

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Why did schools choose to opt out of LEA control?

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More financial autonomy

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Outline 3 characteristics of ‘free schools’

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1) Independent from governmental control
2) Specialise in specific subjects
3) Helped funded by charities

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3 Criticisms of academies + free schools

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1) Inequality in finance (some get more funding from businesses)
2) Scared of independence (follow national curriculum)
3) Highly selective (only want top kids)

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2 criticisms of league tables

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1) Ignores progress made by school

2) Ignores external factors (e.g home life) that affect achievement

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Why did the current government want to introduce free schools and academies?

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So schools become less dependant on the government

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Outline the aim of New Vocationalism

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To teach specific skills in education that will directly be utilised in specific jobs

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5 negative criticisms of New Vocationalism/YTS

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1) Apprenticeships pay £2 per hour = unfair, slave labour
2) Creates more unemployment as employers prefer cheap school leavers
3) Apprenticeships often waste students times (running errands etc)
4) A Levels have more value
5) Apprentices labelled negatively

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