Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Diversity and Choice
- Conservatives policies
- Education Reform Act 1988
- National Curriculum
- SATs
- League Tables
- New vocationalism 1979
- Specislist schools
- Different types of courses/ qualifications
- New Labour policies
- Curriculum 2000
- Split As and A level means wider choice
- Vocational GCSEs and A levels
- Coalition
- Free schools
- Expanded academies
- COnservatives
- Grammar schools
- Marxist critic
- A market led system benefits the ruling class
- Gerwitz
- The middle class are privileged skilled choosers
- Bourdieu
- Cultural economic and social capital
- Ball
- Middle class parents can manipulate the system
- Social Democratic critic
- The focus should be on equality of opportunity
- The top performing schools in the market led system do not deserve the funding
- The money should be spent on those at the bottom
- Post modernist critic
- Are critical of a market led approach
- Choice and diversity should be through the curriculum
- Feminist critic
- Not all have the same choice
- Kelly
- Science is packaged for boys
- Colley
- Subject choices affected by socialisation, subject preferences and learning environment
- Criticisms
- Miller and Epstein
- Choice is an illusion, poorer kids have no choices at all. National curriculum all taught the same. Kentucky fried schooling
- Smith and Noble
- Barriers to learning, not being able to choice good schools
- Callender and Jackson
- W/c people as well as ethnic minorities have a fear of debt
- Byrne
- Migrant parents are much less able, they are not supported by schools