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Neoliberalism and the New Right perspective on education - Coggle Diagram
Neoliberalism and the New Right perspective on education
The New Right
A central principle is the belief that the state cannot meet peoples needs and people are best to meet their own needs through the free market
The New Right favour the marketisation of education
Have similar views about how education should be, to functionalists however they believe that the current education system is failing the goals . The reason for this failure is because it is run by the state.
Views such as a meritocratic system and education that serves the needs of the economy by preparing young people for work
Argue that the state system takes a 'one size fits all' approach and ignores the needs of its local consumers. This means the school systems are unresponsive and inefficient
The New Rights solution is the marketisation of education- creating an education market. The competition will lead schools to improve
Neoliberals argue that the state should not provide services such as education, health and welfare
Neoliberalism is based on the idea that the state must not dictate to individuals how to dispose of their own property
Neoliberals argue that the value of education depends on how well it enables the country to compete in the global marketplace
they claim this can only be achieved if schools become more like businesses.
Chubb and Moe (1990) : Consumer choice
From the New Right perspective
They argue that the reasons state run education in the US has failed is because:
it has not created equal opportunity and failed disadvantaged groups
It is inefficient because it fails to produce pupils with the skills needed by the economy
Private schools are successful because they are answerable to consumer 'parents'
Their argument is based on the evidence that pupils from low-income families consistently do about 5% better in private schools that state schools
They call for an introduction of a market system in state education which means the schools would shape to meet the consumers need which improves quality and efficiency
They propose a system where each family is given a voucher to spend on education from a school of their choice. The vouchers would be the schools main source of income
Two roles for the state ( when education has been marketised)
give parents information in which they can choose between schools such as Ofsted reports and league tables
The National Curriculum- to transmit a shared culture
They believe this should aim to integrate students into a single culture. This means that multicultural education is opposed by the New Right
Evaluation
Gewirtz( 1995) and Ball (1994) - argue that competition between schools will benefit the middle class that can use their cultural and economic capital to access better schools
Critics argue that the real cause of low educational standards is not state control but social inequality and inadequate finding of schools
wanting parental choice and the national curriculum contradict each other
Marxists argue that education does not impose a shared national culture but instead imposes the culture of a dominant minority ruling class and devalues the culture of the working class and ethnic minorities