The new right perspective in education

Define free market

Having an economic system with no government control

Define marketisation

This refers to an educational policy pushed by the New Right which encouraged schools to compete against one another.

The new right main belief

The state cannot meet peoples needs and they are best left to meet their own needs through free market

who created the voucher system

Chubb and Moe - New Right

The New Rights 2 roles for the state

1. Publish official stats like Ofsted reports - to help parents pick schools

2. The ensure schools transmit a shared culture.

Strengths of The New Right

Both functionalists and The New Right:

• Favour an education system that runs on meritocratic principles of open competition and that it serves the needs of the economy by preparing the young

• Some people are naturally more talented than others

• Education should socialise pupils into shared values such as competition .

Limitations of The New Right

• Gewirtz and Ball argue that competition between schools benefit the middle class as they can use their cultural and economic capital to attend the best schools

• The New Right contradiction - they support parental choice but also the state imposing a national curriculum on all schools

• Marxists argue the state does not impose a national curriculum but impose the culture on the minority, dominate class