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Educational Policy
- Before 1988
- Before 1833, the public
state spent no money
on public education
- Industrialisation =
state made schooling
compulsory from the
ages 5 - 13 in 1880
- The type of education
children received depended
on their class background
- Middle-class =
academic curriculum to
prepare for careers.
Working-class = basic
numeracy and literacy
needed for routine
factory work.
- Before 1833, the public
state spent no money
on public education
- The Tripartite System 1994
- Influenced by the idea of
meritocracy - didn't
achieve this
- Children would be selected and
allocated 1 of 3 different types of
secondary school according to their
aptitudes and abilities
- Promoted inequality by channelling two different
social classes into two different types of schooling
and then being offered unequal opportunities.
- 1) Grammar School
2) Secondary Modern
School 3) Technical
School
- Influenced by the idea of
meritocracy - didn't
achieve this
- Comprehensive System
1965 - 1979
- AIM: overcome class divide, make
education more meritocratic
- 11+, grammar schools and secondary
modern schools would be abolished -
replaced with comprehensive schools
which all pupils would attend
- Left to local education authority
to decide whether to 'go
comprehensive' and not all did so.
- Left to local education authority
to decide whether to 'go
comprehensive' and not all did so.
- AIM: overcome class divide, make
education more meritocratic
- FUNCTIONALISTS: see education as fulfilling
essential functions such as a social integregation
and meritocratic selection for future work roles.
- MARXISTS: see education as serving the
interests of capitalism by reproducing
and legitimating class inquality
- MARXISTS: see education as serving the
interests of capitalism by reproducing
and legitimating class inquality
- Marketisation
- 1) Reducing direct state control over education.
2) Increasing both competition between schools
and parental choice of school.
- 1988 Education Reform Act -
Conservative gov. (Thatcher)
- 1997 - New Labour governments
of Blair and Brown followed
similar policies
- Sociologist Miriam David (1993) describes
education as 'parentocracy'. Supporters
of marketisation argue that in an
education market, power shifts away
from producers and to consumers.
- Sociologist Miriam David (1993) describes
education as 'parentocracy'. Supporters
of marketisation argue that in an
education market, power shifts away
from producers and to consumers.
- 1997 - New Labour governments
of Blair and Brown followed
similar policies
- 1) Reducing direct state control over education.
2) Increasing both competition between schools
and parental choice of school.
- The reproduction
of inequality
- Ball (1994) and Whitty (1998) note how
marketisation policies (such as league
tables) reproduce class inequalities by
creating them between schools.
- Parents are attracted to those
with good league table rankings
(policy to publish exam results)
- Will Bartlett (1993)
1) cream - skinning
2) silt - shifting
- Will Bartlett (1993)
1) cream - skinning
2) silt - shifting
- Parents are attracted to those
with good league table rankings
(policy to publish exam results)
- Ball (1994) and Whitty (1998) note how
marketisation policies (such as league
tables) reproduce class inequalities by
creating them between schools.
- Gewirtz: parental choice
- Study of 14
London
secondary
schools
identified 3
types of parents:
1) Privileged -
skilled choosers
2) Disconnected
- local choosers
3) Semi - skilled
consumers
- Privileged - skilled choosers: Professional middle - class who
used their economic and cultural capital to gain educational
capital for their children, being well - educated they were
able to take full advantage of the choices open to them.
- Disconnected - local choosers: Working - class
parents whose choices were restricted by their lack
of economic and cultural capital
- Semi - skilled choosers: Working - class
(however were ambitious for their children)
unfortunately lacked cultural capital and found
it difficult to make sense of the education
market (rely on others opinions about school)
- Privileged - skilled choosers: Professional middle - class who
used their economic and cultural capital to gain educational
capital for their children, being well - educated they were
able to take full advantage of the choices open to them.
- Study of 14
London
secondary
schools
identified 3
types of parents:
1) Privileged -
skilled choosers
2) Disconnected
- local choosers
3) Semi - skilled
consumers
- New Labour and
reducing inequality
- Policies include:
designating some
deprived areas as
Education Action Zones
and providing them with
additional resources.
EMAs. Aimer Higher
Programme.
- Benn (2012) criticises
and sees a
contradiction between
Labour policies to
tackle inequality and its
commitment to
marketisation e.g.
introduction of EMA's
however tuition fees for
higher education is very
expensive
- Policies include:
designating some
deprived areas as
Education Action Zones
and providing them with
additional resources.
EMAs. Aimer Higher
Programme.
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