new right education

How do New Right views on education compare to functionalist views?

• Similar perspective but criticises state education for failing to preform its role

• Due to centralised state control and policies that seek to standardise and improve equality

Why do the New Right believe contemporary state education fails?

• To be properly meritocratic in the way described by Davis and Moore

• It needs to be competitive

What do the New Right believe education should focus on?

• Competition, choice, and the idea of “winning and losing”

• Not collaboration and fairness

How do the New Right view “everyone gets a prize” approaches in schools?

• Fails to provide people with the drive and ambition needed for todays societies

What type of competition do the New Right advocate for in education?

• Within schools

• Between schools

Who argued that private schools outperform public schools?

• Chubb and Moe

What do New Right sociologists believe about shared values in education?

• Education should impart shared values but are concerned about the way it happens in practice

Why do New Right sociologists criticise local education authorities from the 1960s and 1970s?

• The local authorities may have different values from the value consensus

What is a “parentocracy” according to the New Right?

• The value consensus being set up by the parents and hit by positions who were far from mainstream (ensure that children learn things that reflect views of the parents)

What’s an example of education failing the role it should preform?

• Sports days

• Everyone gets a prize

How does the New Right perspective think is the right way to socialise students?

• With the skills to prosper in a market economy

How does the New Right perspective believe that their idea of competition and socialisation will drive up educational standards?

• Bc schools will improve their educational standards to attract customers (parents)

Why did Chubb and Moe argue the reason for prove school’s preform better than public schools? (in USA)

• Because the schools were more answerable to paying parents

• Imprints bc the more schools follow this (impacts educational policies)

What’s a fear of local education authorities having values that differ from the value consensus? (Left wing gov)

• Concerned that places with very left wing authorities might learn history that wasn’t sufficiently patriotic

• (therefore didn’t pass on the shared values of all working for common goals - Durkheim)