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THE NEW RIGHT - ROLE OF EDUCATION
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- 1What are the similarities between the functionalist and NR view of education?- Some people are more talented than others
- Education should be run on meritocratic principles
- Education should socialise pupils into shared norms and values, and create a sense of national identity - 2What do the New Right believe too much state control over education has resulted in?Inefficiency, national economic decline, a lack of personal and business initiative, a culture of state welfare dependency, reduced investment in industry
- 3According to the New Right, why does state-run education not meet the needs of individuals, community or employers?It ends up as a 'one size fits all' system
- 4According to New Right sociologists, why do schools that get poor results not change?Because they are not answerable to their consumers (pupils, parents, teachers) which makes them inefficient
- 5What does this result in?Lower standards and a less qualified workforce
- 6What is the one-word solution New Right sociologists offer to these problems?Marketisation
- 7What is meant by marketisation?Introducing market forces, competition and consumer choice to state run institutions
- 8How will this benefit the education system?It will make schools more answerable to their consumers. Competition between other schools means that teachers have to be more efficient.
- 9What is Chubb and Moe's evidence that supports this idea?(60,000 low income pupils in 1,015 state and private schools in the USA) the pupils did 5% better in the private schools
- 10What does this suggest about state education in terms of meritocracy?It is not meritocratic
- 11According to Chubb and Moe how has state education failed to create equal opportunity?It does not have to respond to pupils needs , so parents cannot do anything about failing schools
- 12So why do private schools deliver higher education?Because they are answerable to paying consumers
- 13What is Chubb and Moe's idea of how marketisation of education should be run?Every family is given a voucher to spend on education and so buys it from a school of their choice
- 14What role would the state have in education in New Right view?- Create a framework for competition (by publishing league tables, setting a national curriculum)
- Ensure that schools transmit societies shared norms and values (teaching British history) - 15What do critics argue is the real reason behind low standards in some state schools?Inadequate funding
- 16Who and why does Gerwitz say competition between schools benefit?The middle class, they are able to get their children into more desirable schools
- 17What is the Marxist criticism of the New Right view?Education transmits the culture of the ruling class, not a shared culture or national identity.
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