Education

Subdecks (7)

Cards (141)

  • 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