New Right Perspective

The New Right believes education should be run like a business, promoting competition and choice.

Key Ideas:

• Marketisation = schools compete for students, improving standards.

• Emphasis on traditional values and discipline.

• Parents act as consumers (parentocracy).

similarities to functionalist perspective

• that some students are naturally more talented than others

• favours the meritocratic system principle of competition and preparing students to join workforces .

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• costumer choice

Criticisms:

• Marketisation increases class inequalities.

• Focus on exam results can narrow the curriculum.