Summary: Educational Policy
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1 Educational policy
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What did the 1944 Education Act introduce?
The tripartite system, which included grammar, technical and secondary moderns to give children an equal chance to develop individual ability through a separate type of schooling geared to the child's ability. The 11+ determined which school they went to. -
Did the 1944 Education Act promote equality or inequality?
Inequality, because it separated children according to class, not ability. -
When was Comprehensivisation and what did it do?
Introduced in the 1960s and based on social democrative ideas that everyone should have an equal chance to succeed. The 11+ was abolished and comprehensive schools introduced. -
Did Comprehensivisation create equality or inequality?
Externally it created inequality, but within schools banding (Ball) and streaming (Keddie) take place, so inequality exists. -
What did the 1988 Education Reform Act introduce and who introduced it?
Introduced by the Conservative government and brought in a national curriculum, SATs, city technical colleges, reduced LEA control and introduced marketisation. -
Did the 1988 Reform Act promote equality or inequality? Why?
Promoted inequality due to marketisation benefiting the middle class because they are skilled choosers (Gerwitz). -
Which policies introduced by New Labour in 1997 promoted equality?
- Education Action Zones
- Aim Higher
- Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA)
- Sure Start
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Which policies introduced by New Labour in 1997 promoted inequality?
- Tuition fees for universities
- Introduced specialist schools
- Labour's anti-inequality policies are merely cosmetic (Whitty).
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What policies were introduced by the 2010 Coalition government?
Academies and free schools, with more emphasis placed on faith schools (Tony Blair was very religious) -
What happens with the privatisation of education?
- Education becomes a source of profit for capitalists (Ball).
- The blurring of public/private boundaries.
- The cola-lisation of schools.
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