Educational policy and inequality
- Created by: WignallRose
- Created on: 24-05-17 11:55
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- Educational policy and inequality
- In Britain in 1988
- Selection: tripartite system
- Children selected and allocated (11+)
- Pass = grammar schools (gender)
- Comprehensive school system
- Overcome class divide
- Two theories of the role of comprehensive
- Integration, brings children together
- Reproduces class inequality (Ford)
- Selection: tripartite system
- Coalition government policies from 2010
- Comprehensive reduced role of the state
- Encouraged to become academies
- Free school set up and run (benefit educated)
- Lead to fragmentation and centralisation
- Conservative-LibDem = EMAs, fees etc = class inequality
- Privatisation of education
- Transfer of public assests to private companies for profit
- Senior officials leave to set us businesses
- Pollack = gain insider knowledge
- Cola-isation = private sector within education (Cadbury)
- Ball = privatisation shapes educational policy
- 'Legitimate object of private profit making'
- Privatisation & competition as myth
- Achievement of minorities = assimilation & multicultural
- Evaluation = 'soft' approach, look at racism
- Marketisation
- Introducing market forces of consumer choice
- David = marketised edu is a parentocracy
- League tables, Ofsted etc.
- Ball and Whitty = class inequality
- Cream skimming, silt shifting
- Formula funding = competition creates segragation
- Gerwitz = privileged-skilled, disconnected & semi-skilled
- Myth of meritocracy
- Benn = New Labour paradox EMAs & fees
- In Britain in 1988
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