The new right and education Flashcards
What is neoliberalism?
Neo liberalism is a political ideology that says all areas of society should be run as if they were a business to make them more efficient and to encourage economic growth.
What is dependency culture?
Dependancy culture is a cycle of reliance on the welfare state. People do not try hard and are lazy because they know they will be supported. Their children will witness these actions and will reproduce them creating a dependency culture and underclass.
What is marketisation in education?
Marketisation is key to raising standards in education schools must compete for customers in a free open market as parents will want to send their children to the most successful schools. info on the standards achieve by schools must be available.
What is privatisation in education?
Transferring ownership and control of educational services from the public sector to the private sector. Makes schools more efficient and rises standards. Maintains income through deals with private companies e.g. vending machines. Subcontracting of services to private companies e.g. cleaning, school dinners, seen as more efficient means of provision.
What is globalisation?
The exchange of ideas, resources and educational practices amongst nations.
What do chub and Mo say about education?
Our education system fails because there is not equal opportunity people don’t have skills needed private schools are better as they are answerable to consumers. Data: achievements of 60,000 pupils in pro state and private schools parent surface case studies are failing schools.
Findings : low income children do 5% better in private schools
Proposal for state system: all parents should be given a voucher with which they can buy their children’s education. Schools would have to improve their product to appeal to parents/kids.
What does Peter Saunders say about education?
Saunders supports the idea that inequality is necessary to motivate people to do well at school and work hard to get good jobs insisting that British society is equal but fair and therefore meritocratic. Saunders also believes that intelligence is largely inherited from your parents and that the education system gives pupils more or less equal opportunity to succeed. Saunders believes although there is some evidence of upward social mobility in the UK this tends to be far easier for those already born into the middle-class family. Saunders believes politicians are promising to fix a society that is already stable in order to seem like a guiding light.
What does Gerwitz say about education?
Skilled choosers - parents who have money skills and motivation to make informed choices about the school their children attend
Semi skilled choosers - parents who have high levels of concerned for their children’s education but do not have the same resources as as the skilled choosers
Disconnected choosers - parents who are less concerned about the academic reputation of the school and concerned with the children’s happiness .
What does ball argue about marketisation policies?
Policies such as publishing exam table creates inequality between schools. Cream skimming= best students the middle class are taken from bunch. Get them more money which they can reinvest into resources.
Silt shifting = School have leftover students they have less students and less money. This can become a vicious cycle they tend to attract more working class students. ( less skilled choosers)
What do Coffeild and Williamson say about education?
Schools have turned into exam factories and results have become a measure of success. Teachers teach to test and students are mark hungry and obsessed by exams.
Why are schools becoming selective?
In an open market consumer choice might result in provider choice. With every person wanting to attend a certain school there will not be enough places available. Schools will have to choose students however in order to maintain their reputation at the top of the league there is pressure on schools to choose the most promising students.
Statistics about the proportion of people in top jobs
7% of children go to private school
Three and four judges are privately educated
One and two of senior civil servants are privately educated
One and three of politicians are privately educated
Two and three of members of the house of law are privately educated
More than half of doctors in the UK went to private schools.
Issues preventing motivated working class people from having the same opportunities as wealthier people
Trading of internships between wealthy counterparts not giving working-class a chance
Not living in London or having to commute to jobs
Not having the funds to go to university
Not enough resources
Stereotypes around not being able to go to a profession because of IQ upbringing or social status.
