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MARKETISATION & SELECTION - Coggle Diagram
MARKETISATION & SELECTION
MARKETISATION OF EDUCATION
=running schools like businesses on principles of free market economy (competition, choice, no gov. interference)
policy introduced by
Education Reform Act 1988
- aimed to raise standards and remove bad schools- as parents won't choose those schools, they'll get less funding and eventually close down.
OPEN ENROLMENT
– parents can send their kids to any school of their choice.
FORMULA FUNDING
- all schools get money from the gov. per student (£3000). more students= more money it gets.
EXAM LEAGUE TABLES
– shows % of who gained 5+ A*-C grades. this attracts more students to school which then gets more money.
OFSTED
– inspections of schools provide information for parents.
A-C ECONOMY- criticism of marketisation- GILLBORN& YOUDELL
marketisation of education widens gap in achievement between w/c and m/c students.
A-C economy
= system where schools allocate time, resources and effort towards those who have the potential to get 5+ A*-C grades. (mostly m/c)
SELECTION-BARTLETT
-popular schools can:
Cream-skim
– select high ability students who'll get A*-C & offer them a place at the school. usually m/c
Silt-shift
– reject applications from students with learning difficulties/ behavioural problems (likely to underachieve)- usually w/c
EDUCATIONAL TRIAGE- GILLBORN & YOUDELL
=where teachers decide which students have the greatest chance of getting 5+ A*-C.
-Will get A* - C – don’t need extra help.
-Will fail – nothing teachers do can help
-Borderline students – likely get a D, but can get a C with extra help e.g. mentoring.
Schools do this to consistently get good exam results (do well in the league tables) thus attracting more m/c parents.M/c do well in education as they get extra help, etc. from schools & teachers, while w/c underachieve as they're labelled and placed in the ‘hopeless cases’ group
SELECTION- attracting "right kind of parents"
GERWIRTZ
schools attract m/c parents through home school contracts. If they're ‘wordy’ and demanding w/c parents are put off & don't apply
BALL
Schools spend money on advertising through expensive brochures etc. to attract parents instead of investing in teaching resources.