Governments around the world
press for higher levels of education and skills for all their young
people. They believe that, despite recessions and job losses, people
are “human capital” who need to ...invest in their own training and
help grow economies. In England in 2019, disabled adults made up 20%
of potential workers, but only half of them were employed. This
chapter discusses the changing nature of the labor market and the
place of young people regarded as having special educational needs
or disabilities in education and training, noting that despite a
shift to a social model of disability, social and work environments
often fail to adapt to those with disabilities. Education and
training for disabled young people have usually been at lower levels
and the jobs on offer for them lower skilled and waged. But, more
recently in England, disabled students have been recognized as a
significant presence with more taking higher skilled and
professional jobs after graduation. The chapter briefly compares the
situation in England with that of Germany and Finland.
This article discusses some of the effects of the creation of an educational market, based on parental choice of school, on ethnic minority students. It notes that from the 1960s to the 1980s ...educational policy and practice changed slowly to accommodate minority students more successfully and principles of social justice and equity in education began to be regarded as important. However, the new market framework which encourages competition and separation has begun to affect the education of minority students in mainly negative ways. The urban location and social class position of most minority students disadvantages them in a situation of market competition, as does the effect of the devolution of funding to schools. Minority students are less likely to be sought after as 'desirable' commodities by schools and more likely to be excluded. The market also encourages ethnic and racial segregation as white parents are now able openly to choose schools with few or no minority students, but black and Asian middle-class parents are likely to make similar 'choices'-avoiding inner-city schools.
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New Labour and education TOMLINSON, Sally
Children & society,
2003, Letnik:
17, Številka:
3
Journal Article
This article explores some of the major continuities and changes in policy and practice concerning the inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities ineducation and economic placement in a global ...economy. It refers to papers given at five sessions of the International Sociological Association's (ISA)four-yearly world congresses, held between1986-2002. In particular it notes educational changes and disadvantages affecting minorities in Britain over twenty-five years. A major conclusion is that education within acompetitive global economy can encourage newforms of racial and social exclusion.
This article notes that the attempt to include all young people in education, an aim of Labour governments over the years, still relies on an expanded and expensive special educational needs ..."industry". How to include all lower attainers and those with disabilities in the education system and the economy is a political issue for a Labour government. A start should be made on changing a competitive, hierarchical system that relegates many working-class children to lower levels of education and enhances middle-class fears for their "less able" children.
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be Tomlinson, Sally
Forum for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education,
2015, Letnik:
57, Številka:
3
Journal Article
This article briefly overviews the likely future of education as planned after the 2015 Conservative election success. Although education was not a major item in election manifestos or in subsequent ...discussion, the Department for Education claims that it is rolling out one of the most ambitious education reform movements in the world. How the break-up of a national public educational system is being achieved, primarily through an academies programme and a changed assessment system, and a requirement that all educational institutions, including universities, become competitive businesses, needs far more debate and understanding than any political party is currently willing to undertake.
The book draws on a number of research projects undertaken in the state of Victoria, Australia, at a time when the whole state education system was being restructured along market lines, in ...particular using case study research in Hillcrest, a secondary school where a woman principal was appointed to amalgamate two schools. Chapter 8, written with Anne Lodge, presents findings from a research project on equality and social climate in schools, one purpose of the study being to learn how young people themselves define an equality agenda, and in chapter 9, Lynch takes on the pervasive belief in `ability' as an unproblematic concept, used to select and stratify young people in schools and then in the labour market. The final chapter returns to a theoretical analysis of education and social justice, offers some succinct conceptions of equality, critiques the liberal equal opportunity policies which have dominated public policy-making in all Westernised countries, and concedes that critical theorists, Marxists, feminists and post-modernists have challenged, but not eroded, the liberal agenda on equality.
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