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New Right
Neoliberalism
Pupils, parents and employers should have a say in education
Want to create an education market
Believe that competition between schools and empowering consumers will increase diversity , choice and efficiency to said schools
Chubb and Moe 1990
NeoLib
Consumer choice
Call for an introduction of a marker system in state education that puts control in hands of consumer
State run education has failed as it hasn’t created equal opportunity and has failed the needs of disadvantaged groups
Fails to produce pupils with skills needed for the econkmy
Two Roles for state
Neo-Lib/New Right
What do they want the state to do?
Impose framework on schools within they have to compete eg exam league tables.
Ensure schools have a a shared culture eg a single National Curriculum
Gewirtz 1995. Ball 1994
Criticism of Neo-Lib/New Right
Competition
Competition between skls benefit m/c schools that can use cultural and economic capital to get access to more desirable schools
Low educational standards
Not because of state control but social inequality and inadequate funding of state schools
Contradicting itself
New right supports parental choice but also imposes a compulsory national curriculum on all its schools
Marxists
Education imposes a culture of a dominant minority ruling class
Devalues the culture of the working class and EM’s.
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