Zusammenfassung der Ressource
NEW RIGHT PERSPECTIVES
ON EDUCATION
- new
right
- negative view of the state
and its education policies
- state can't meet the
individual peoples needs
- better off if they can meet
their own needs through the
free market
- free market: privatisation
state controlled:
nationalisation (NHS)
- similarities with
functionalism
- believe some people are
naturally more intelligent than
others
- education is meritocratic
- designed to serve the needs to the economy by
preparing pupils for work
- gives students a national identity
- differences with functionalism
- state run so can't meet individual
needs
- "one size fits all" schooling which
degrades local needs so state schools are
unresponsive and inefficient
- schools can't answer to the consumers as they
are state run, producing a less qualified
workforce and a poor economy
- education market
- making education private
- increases competition
which allows the laws of
supply and demand
empower the consumer
- creates a greater
diversity, choice
and efficiency as
it meets the
needs of the
consumer
- chubb and moe
- american state
education has failed and
believe it should be free
market
- disadvantaged groups are
mistreated by the state so it fails
to promote meritocracy
- privatisation gives a higher quality of education
as they are answerable to the paying parents
- parents given a voucher to allow them to pay
for their school of choice
- main source of income so schools are treated like
businesses
- evaluation
- contradiction between support for parental
choice then imposing a compulsory national
curriculum on all schools
- marxists say that it doesn't impose a
shared national culture but they
want them to have the same culture
of capitalism
- free market education only benefits the
M/C as there's a cultural and economic
capital to get the best schools
- under achievements in state schools
isn't due to state but wider inequalities
in society
- post modernists believe
schools are constantly
changing
- role of the state
- gives basic framework in
which schools have to
operate
- produces a shared culture so they're
socialised into single heritage
- national identity must show british history
positively, eg. christian worship
- influence on government policy
- 1988 education reform act
- new labour (1997) creating academy schools
- parental choice with national
curriculum, league tables and ofsted
- puts pupils into
competition with
eachother