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The Role of education
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Research methods
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Social policy in education
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Ethnic differences in achievement
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Class differences in achievement
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Gender differences in achievement
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What is functionalism?
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Name 2 external factors that cause class differences?
-Cultural
deprivation
-Material
deprivation
Name the four key features of the working class subculture?
-Fatalism
-Collectivism
-Immediate gratification
-Present-time orientation
How can students be culturally deprived?
-Language
-Speech codes
-Parents' education
-Working
class
subculture
New Right
A
conservative political theory
that people should not rely on the
state
, it favors the
marketisation
of
education.
New Right view on the Role of the State ?
-National
Curriculum
Framework on schools via
league
tables
and
Ofsted
reports
Sociologists that support labelling
Merton
(
1948
),
Becker
(
1971
),
Hempel Jorgenson
(
2009
),
Dunne
and
Gazeley
(
2008
)
Becker's
beliefs
The idea of an
ideal pupil
,
middle class pupils
typically better fit this
ideal
What are the three steps of the self fulfilling prophecy?
STEP 1: The
labelling
of a student by a
teacher.
STEP 2: The teacher
treats
the student
accordingly
as if the
prediction
is
true.
STEP 3: The pupil
internalises
the
label
and
becomes
the student that the teacher
predicted.
What
is the marketisation of education?
The application of
market forces
to education system, seen by promoting choice and
competition
Coalition
1979-97 - impact on education?
Education Reform
Act
1988
'open enrolment
' = greater choice
National curriculum
Standardised
testing
intro of
formula funding
New
Labour 1997-2010?
City Academies
2000
Growth of
specialist
schools +
FAITH
schools
introduced
tuition
fees at
£1000
Coalition
2010-
2015
= impact on education
2013
- Pupil premium act
Progress 8 - measurement tool based on progress student would make
Tuition
fees tripled for
high
value courses
Impacts of marketisation on education?
Private investment
Increased
choice
Improvements in
GCSE
and
A
level pass rates
Criticisms
of marketisation?
Myth of
parentocracy
- ball argues that only middle class with
cultural
and economic
capital
Selective
rather
open
enrollment
Teaching
the
test
rather than actual skills
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