New Right

• •Neoliberalism: an economic ideology which argues that the state should not provide services such as education, health and welfare.
• •It is based on the idea that the state must not dictate to individuals how to live their lives, and should instead encourage competition between private businesses.•Schools should become more like businesses, competing for business in order to drive up standards
• •The NEW RIGHT is a political view which incorporates neoliberal economics. They favour the marketisation of education – they believe that competition between schools will bring greater choice, responsiveness to local needs and raise educational standards.
• The Role Of The State-•To impose a framework on schools e.g the Ofsted inspection framework, exam league tables.•To make sure schools transmit a shared culture through the national curriculum e.g. British values and history, Catholic values.
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  •Gewirtz (1995) – competition benefits the middle class who use cultural and economic capital to access the best schools.•Critics argue the real cause of low-educational standards is not state control but social inequality and lack of school funding (which conservative politicians have cut).•Marxists argue that education imposes dominant, ruling class culture and devalues other kinds.