Thursday 1 March 2012

The Guardian - 'Broken Britain' rhetoric fuels fears about state schools

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/sep/08/broken-britain-rhetoric-fuels-fear

How can you link cultural hegemony to this article? How does the article suggest moral panic is being caused?
Due to the government rule of Conservatives, their middle class position becomes influential into creating 'moral panic' about the lower income families. In this article they are predominately targeting state schools, causing a divide between children in different education, making other institutions (normally private education) a higher power with better standards of teaching and pupil respect. The middle class becomes dominant providing fears and invoking negative perspectives of behaviour based upon the education system, therefore providing strong views that massively exaggerate the problems in state schools.

Can you link in McRobbies Symbolic Violence Theory? How?
They have created an image of crime that represents British youth, linking lower classes and state education to these claims of violence. 'They link together issues such as bad discipline, falling standards, crime and 'feral children' with educational standards in disadvantages schools'

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