Marketisation

• Parentocracy- David

  Means when a child’s educational achievement has more to do with parental wealth and wishes than students ability.Parents are able to have more choice over where to send their children.this encourages diversity among schools gives parents more choice to raise standards
• three elements of quality control

  . OFSTED insepection

  .publication on performance tables such as examination results

  .national curriculum,- baseline of what is taught
• 3 features of marketisation-

  .independence -allowing school to run how they see fit

  .competition- making schools compete with each other for students.

  Choice- giving customers more choice in where they go to.
• Evaluation of education (marketisation)-myth of parentocarcy+ educational triage

  .Myth of parentocracy

  .parents do not have equal freedom to choose the shcools which their child attends due to covert selection process,postcode is in catchments areas.Middle class parents have more freedom in choice due to their cultural capital.,higher education and income

  educational triage-teachers tend to allocate more resources to students who are on the C/D. Boarder line in order to achieve the A- C needed for the league tables thus ignoring those who are unlikely to achieve this- Gillnborne and Youdell
• Evalutiation-(Marketisation)- dumbing down+reduced quality control

  Dumbing down- due to funding formula schools need to retain and attract students in order to receive funding.Schools will therefore lead To and the dumbing down of teaching and standards in order to retain students who might leave if they are pushed too hard or if the courses are too difficult.

  Reduced quality control- PFSTED is not as independent as it appears with government and politicians interfering with the process by changing standards and goal posts
• Gerwirtz- Parental choice


  .Privilege -skilled chooser-middle class parents who have both economic and cultural capital and understand how the educational system.Many can afford to move into school catchment areas.

  Disconnected-Local choosers-working class students with a lack of cultural and economic capital and no importance placed on league tables .Nearest school option is the best.

  Semi-skilled choosers-Mainly working class parents who had ambitions for child but lack cultural and economic capital.
• will - creaming skimming and slit shifting


  Parents are attracted to schools when there is an over subscription in top schools schools take the middle class students for the sake of league tableswith good league rankings .Results reproduce class inequality.

  .cream skimming- attract middle class student snd skim of the students who see more likely to the best grades
• Marketisation


  Refers to the process of introducing market forces of consumer choice and competition between suppliers into areas run be the staten.

  .reducing direct state over education

  .increasing competition between schools and parental choice of school
• Funding formula


  Schools are allocated funds based on how many pupils they attarct .Popular shcools gets qualified eta hers and better facilities.Allows them to be more selective and attracts middle class applicants.
• Ball- Myth of Parentocracy


  Middle class parents are able to take advantage of choices
• Chubb and moe

  Argued that introducing market principles into education transforms the way schools operate..

  Parents act as costumers .

  this offers better education and schools work harder to improve.leads to more competitions schools try to improve facilities and teaching methods .
• Chubb and mow case study

  Chubb and Moe base there arguments on a comparison of the achievements of 60,000 pupils from low income families. Found that pupils from low income families consistently do about 5% better in private schools.