Chapter 2- Education with Methods in Context Flashcards
Social Cohesion
The bonds or ‘glue’ that brings people together and integrate them into a united society
Social mobility
Movement of groups of individuals up or down the social hierarchy
Functional prerequisites
The basic needs that must be met if society is to survive
Hidden Curriculum
concerns not so much the formal content of subject lessons and examinations as the way teaching and learning are organised
Social solidarity
the integration of people into society through shared values, a common culture, shared understandings and social ties that bring them together.
Particularistic values
rules and values that give a priority to personal relationship
universalistic values
rules and values that apply equally to all members of society, regardless of who they are
meritocracy
society where jobs and pay are allocated on the basis purely of people’s individual talents, abilities and skills
human capital
the knowledge and skills possessed by a workforce that increase that workforce’s value and usefulness to employers
division of labour
division of work or occupation into a large number of tasks, each by one worker or a group of workers
marketisation
the process whereby services, like education or health, that were controlled and run by the state, have government or local council control reduced or removed altogether, and become subject to the free market forces of supply and demand, based on competition and consumer choice
false consciousness
failure by members of a social class to recognise their real interests
ideological state apparatus
agencies which serve to spread the ideology and justify the power of the dominant social class
habitus
the cultural framework and set of ideas possessed by a social class, into which people are socialised and which influences their cultural tastes and choices
cultural capital
the knowledge, language, manners and forms of behaviour, attitudes and values, taste and lifestyle which give middle class and upper class students who possess them an in-built advantage in middle class controlled education system
