Sed2601 Exam Pack

Sed2601 Exam Pack Question Outline two reasons why marketisation policies may produce inequality of educational achievement between social classes. Answer:  cream-skimming; successful schools can attract higher achievers, who are more likely to be middle-class.  silt-shifting; successful schools can avoid taking less able, largely working-class pupils, who thus end up in low-achieving schools. Question Outline three reasons for gender differences in educational achievement. Answer:  laddish subcultures; boys are more likely to join antischool subcultures that prevent them from achieving.  changes in the job market: more jobs for women/decline in traditional men’s jobs increase girls’/reduce boys’ motivation to achieve.  feminisation of education; more female teachers as role models today gives girls an advantage over boys.  leisure pursuits; for example, girls’ leisure often involves a ‘bedroom culture’ of talking with friends, which develops their communication skills. Question Item A According to Marx, capitalism is based on the ownership of the means of production by a wealthy minority. Capitalism continues to exist because each new generation of workers is forced to undertake low-paid, alienating work to survive. This makes capitalism potentially unstable, since it depends on the proletariat not seeking to overthrow this unequal system. Applying material from Item A, analys