Post-16 Curriculum Provision in England: The Emerging Functional "Triage" Serving Capital's Needs

Autor/in	Bunnell, Tristan
Titel	Post-16 Curriculum Provision in England: The Emerging Functional "Triage" Serving Capital's Needs
Quelle	In: Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 9 (2011) 1, S.149-187 (39 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-2743
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Human Capital; Advanced Placement Programs; High Stakes Tests; Educational Certificates; Labor Force Development; Role of Education; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Humankapital; Bildungsabschluss; Schulzeugnis; Arbeitskräftebestand; Bildungsauftrag
Abstract	The post-16 examination field in England has changed radically over the past decade. The previously hegemonic A-Level has been joined by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, Cambridge Pre-U, AQA Baccalaureate, and the Government's own Diploma's. This has been attacked as a "cluttered" field and an unnecessary duplication of resources with critics identifying the need to revamp A-Levels or introduce another unitary award. However, an alternative viewpoint can be offered, seeing the "crowded" field as reflecting the complex needs of Capital. As well as further stratifying schooling along class lines, the government gets to reduce school expenditure without compromising England's international competitiveness. The economic down-turn offers an opportunity for "selling" a multi-tiered curriculum model as an "urgent" one, limiting opposition and resistance, whilst also creating a differentiated field for Capital to intervene in, and profit from. It becomes a convenient model for solving the current crisis of Capital accumulation and offers a means for legitimizing the movement towards educating children to serve Capital; we are told that the world is getting "flatter" and resources must be immediately re-allocated (a form of educational "triage") in favour of highly skilled (and better motivated) children. What appears is a broad spectrum separating the elite global worker (the "knowledge worker") from the mass of "knowledgeable workers", many of whom will form the large surplus pool of "economically inactive" workers. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Institute for Education Policy Studies. University of Northampton, School of Education, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, UK. Tel: +44-1273-270943; e-mail: ieps@ieps.org.uk; Web site: http://www.jceps.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10