AO3

• parentocracy - David 


  -argues marketised education is a 'parentocracy'

  > 'rule by parents'

  -supporters of marketisation argue in education market, power shifts away from producers & towards consumers

  -parents (as consumers) can control the education system through their choices
• reproduction of inequality - Ball & Whitty


  -increased inequality due to benefit mainly to middle class
• ways inequality is reproduced


  -league tables

  > high achieving schools can be more selective

  > lower position schools unable to be selective

  > cream-skimming & silt-shifting

  -funding formula

  > better schools: more funding & better teachers/facilities

  -unpopular schools: lose income, difficult to match skills
• parental choice - Gerwitz


  -argues marketisation advantages middle class parents > who have economic & cultural capital

  -privileged skill choosers

  -disconnected local choosers

  -semi skilled choosers
• privileged skilled choosers - Gerwitz


  -professional middle class parents

  -cultural capital

  -economic capital

  -can take full advantage of choices
• disconnected local choosers - Gerwitz


  -working class parents

  -lack cultural & economic capital

  -restricted choices

  -nearest school often only realistic option
• semi skilled choosers - Gerwitz


  -mainly working class but ambitious

  -lack cultural & economic capital

  -frustrated at inability to get children into schools they wanted
• 'myth of parentocracy'


  -some argue marketisation produces & legitimates inequality

  > not only between high & low performing schools, also between parents/pupils

  -BALL > argues only appears to be choice for parents

  -GERWITZ > middle class advantaged (cultural capital)

  -LEECH & CAMPOS > middle class afford to move closer to better schools
• selection by mortgage - Leech & Campos

  -middle class can afford to move closer to better schools
• cream skimming


  -good schools that're oversubscribed can be more selective

  -able to recruit high achieving, mainly middle class pupils
• silt shifting


  -'good' schools that're oversubscribed can avoid taking less pupils who're likely to get poor results & damage school's league table position