Paper 1: Education and Social Policy The Spec Key Questions to ask of each policy. Does this policy improve equal opportunities? What types of schools should there be? Choice should parents choose their schools or should schools get to choose their pupils? – Who has control over schools? Who decides the curriculum? Who should run the schools? To what extent should they operate like a business? Have they made schools better or worse? For whom? Exam Questions Explain what is meant by the term (2 marks) ‘parentocracy’. Explain what is meant by diversity’. (2 marks) ‘school Explain what is meant by compensatory education. (2 marks) Explain how globalisation has influenced the education system. (4 marks) Outline and evaluate policies which attempt to reduce ethnic differences in eduation. (10m) Suggest three educational policies that have attempted to raise standards in education in the last 25 years. (6 marks) Suggest policies three ways in which the middle-classes are more effective in achieving better schooling for their children than those from a more disadvantaged background. (6 marks) Outline some of the policies introduced by governments since 1988 to create an education market in the UK (10 marks)
Paper 1: Education and Social Policy The Spec Key Questions to ask of each policy. Does this policy improve equal opportunities? What types of schools should there be? Choice – should parents choose their schools or should schools get to choose their pupils? Who has control over schools? Who decides the curriculum? Who should run the schools? To what extent should they operate like a business? Have they made schools better or worse? For whom? Exam Questions Explain what is meant by the term ‘parentocracy’. (2 marks) Explain what is meant by ‘school diversity’. (2 marks) Explain what is meant by compensatory education. (2 marks) Explain how globalisation has influenced the education system. (4 marks) Outline and evaluate policies which attempt to reduce ethnic differences in eduation. (10m) Suggest three educational policies that have attempted to raise standards in education in the last 25 years. (6 marks) Suggest policies three ways in which the middle-classes are more effective in achieving better schooling for their children than those from a more disadvantaged background. (6 marks) Outline some of the policies introduced by governments since 1988 to create an education market in the UK (10 marks)