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Bartlett (1993)
CREAM-SKIM which involves selecting higher ability pupils, who gain the best results and cost less to teach.
SILT-SHIFTING which if off-loading pupils with learning difficulties, whoa re expensive to teach and get poor results.
GERWITZ ET AL (1995)
By increasing parental choice, marketisation also advantages middle-class parents whose economic and cultural capital leads to class differences in how far they can exercise choice of secondary school. Argue that three broad groups can be distinguished in terms of their ability to discriminate between schools,
1. PRIVILEGED/SKILLED CHOOSERS are strongly motivated to choose a school for their children and they have the necessary skills to do so. They have the ability to understand the nature of different schools and to evaluate the claims, aka cultural capital.
2. SEMI-SKILLED CHOOSERS have a strong inclination but limited capacity to engage with the market. They are just as concerned to get the best possible education for their children but they do not have the same level of skill as their privileged/skilled counterparts.
3. DISCONNECTED CHOOSERS, not inclined to get very involved with the education market. They are concerned about their children’s welfare and education but they do not see their children’s enjoyment of school or their educational success as being facilitated in any way by a consumerist approach to school choice.
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