marketisation

Question 1

what is marketisation?

Answer 1

the process of introducing market forces of consumer choice an competition between suppliers into areas run by the state, such as education

Question 2

what has the marketisation of education created?

Answer 2

• an ‘education market’ by:

1. reducing direct state control over education
2. increasing both competition between schools and parental choice of school

Question 3

what is the neoliberal and new right stance on marketisation?

Answer 3

• favour it
• marketisation means that schools have to attract customers (parents) by competing with each other in the market
• schools that provide customers with what they want- such as success in exams- will thrive, and those that don’t will ‘go out of business’

Question 4

what is parentocracy?

Answer 4

• Miriam David- ‘rule by parents
• power shifts away from the producers (teachers and schools) to the consumers (parents).
• they claim that this encourages diversity among schools, gives parents more choice and raises standards

Question 5

marketisation- the reproduction of equality

Answer 5

• Ball and Whitty
• argue that it has increased inequalities by reproducing class inequalities

Question 6

what is cream skimming and silt shifting?

Answer 6

• bartlett
  1) cream skimming- ‘good’ schools can be more selective, choose their own customers and recruit high achieving, mainly m/c pupils. as a result, these pupils gain an advantage

2) silt sifting- ‘good’ schools can avoid taking less able pupils who are likely to get poor results and damage the schools’ league table

Question 7

what are examples of policies used to promote marketisation?

Answer 7

• publication of league tables and ofsted inspection- gives parents more information to choose the right school
  -introduction of tuition fees for higher education
• allowing parents to set up free schools
• open enrolment