social democratic

• Marketisation

  -refers to aim of making schools compete with one another

  -makes schools into "businesses"
• Parentocracy

  parents as consumers

  -they must have a choice of where to send their children,schools must publish prospectus and league table with results.
• perspective

  -govt. should play aa major role in providing welfare though the state for its citizens to promote their wellbeing

  -they should make opportunity more more equal (meritocratic)

  -they were against the tripartite system as grammar schools were selective, taking only higher ability pupils. They felt this was divisive as the majority was made up of MC whereas secondary moderns were wc
• Policies

  -the labour government partly replaced the tripartite system with comprehensive schools in order to:

  -eradicate class divisions between different types of schools

  -create more equal opportunities

  -encourage economic growth by ensuring talent is not wasted by sending children to secondary moderns

  -reduce inequality in society through taxation- the rich were more heavily taxed than others (progressive taxation)