Education Flashcards
Education in pre industrial
Ascribed roles
Limited social mobility
Less meritocratic.
Unnecessary education.
Education in industrial
Achieved roles.
Upward social mobility.
Necessary education
Formal education and welfare state expansion.
What’re the 2 functions of education according to Durkheim?
Creating social solidarity.
Teaching specialist skills.
What’s Durkheim’s view on education
Transmit knowledge and skills.
Bridge between particularistic to universalistic view
What’s Parsons view on education?
Meritocracy.
A bridge.
Identify talents.
Allocate to suitable positions.
Promote social mobility.
Education:Davis and Moore
Social stratification
Sorting mechanism, sifts and sorts people
Jobs not equally important.
Marxism and education
Shared n+v reinforce capitalism.
Conform and accept authority.
People still judged on backgrounds.
Marxism:Bowles and Gintis
how education works to make people suited for capitalism
Correspondence principles (Bowles and Gintis)
School teach skills and knowledge to work for capitalism.
Socialization.
Reward obedience.
Mini versions of society.
Myth of meritocracy (Bowles and Gintis)
Education control inequalities.
Justify inequality that it is inevitable.
Achievement determined by background.
Myth making machine.
Hidden curriculum (Bowles and Gintis)
Teach capitalist values.
Conformity and hierarchy.
Students and workers motivated by external rewards.
Neo-Marxism:Willis
Class conscious.
Lads study, counterculture.
Pointless to be academically good.
New right and education
Consensus.
Education is failing
Prefers marketization and meritocracy.
Marketization (New right)
Competition to increase quality.
Favors traditional teaching.
Modern society, left wing add to progressive.
Parentocracy (New right)
Freedom and the choices for parents.
Vocationalism.
Inc parental participation, diversity.
League tables.
Chubb and Moe
Failed state school.
Disadv groups not served, no equal oppor.
Neg impact on economy.
State schools don’t teach skills needed.
Cream skimming (Gerwitz and Ball)
School place a boundary.
Select top student, push weaker students.
May exclude special needs students.
Feminism and education
Traditionally discriminate.
Steered into stereotypical roles.
Restricted career opportunities.
Feminism:Stanworth
Education pass stereotypical messages.
Glass ceiling
See the top, can never get there as they are women.
Postmodernism and education
Societies changed, create uncertainties.
Full of risks with constant surveillance.
Globalization.
Dislike what size if it’s off.
Lifelong education needed.
Education reproduces diversity not inequality.
What are the 5 key characteristics Jones stated in postmodern society?
Rise of global capitalism.
Reduced states power.
Population growth and urbanization.
Globalization of market and marketing.
Rise of information society.
Postmodernism:identity
Before, standard life course.
Now, idea of job for life disappeared, difficult to make identity.
Postmodernism:economy
Fordism to postfordism
Jobs based on flexible specialization.
Postmodernism:changes to education
Fit the new workforce.
Greater choices and diversity.
Fragmented and hyper real.
What are the ways education has adapted to postmodernism?
Schools are more consumerist.
Individualized education.
Diverse education.
Fragmented education.
Hyperreal education.
Eva:functionalism
Hargreaves, promote competition add individualism brother that shared values.
Althusser, ideological stay apparatus.
Feminism, traditional gender roles.
Postmodernism, education is also shaped by other things.
Postmodernism, ignores the fluid of identity.
Eva:Marxism
Postmodernism, structured work is outdated.
Brown et al workforce required teamwork, not obedience. 
Reynolds, education also teach critical thinking.
Willis, hidden curriculum not always accepted.
Functionalism, education benefit society as a whole.
Feminism, ignores that a reproduces patriarchy.
Eva:New right
Gewirtz and Ball, new vocationalism create gap between academic and vocational studies.
Marxism, education focused on students from U/C.
Assisted places scheme, ones actually disadv didn’t participate.
Marxism, a fundamental right rather than a product that sold in market.
Eva:Feminism
GIST and WISE bring women into science.
Difference feminism, other feminism ignores barriers EM female students face.
Functionalism, ignore spell logical differences.
Marxism, reinforces capitalism.
Types of uk schools
Grammar school.
Six from college.
Academies.
Private or independent.
Voluntary schools.
State schools.
Class in pre industrial society
Easily recognized based on class.
Very little social mobility.
Class in post modern society
Blurred class boundaries.
Indicators of class can’t be applied to everyone.
More social mobility.
Inc M/C.
Class differences in educational achievement
Free school meals children, 27% less likely to achieve 5 or more GCSEs at grade A*-C .
4/5 children from W/C EM fam, taught with high concentrations of immigrant or disadv students.
What is cultural dep?
W/C fam fail to act as a primary socialization, limit one’s performance.
Cultural dep:Bernstein
Speech codes differences put W/C at disadv.
Cultural dep:Bereiter and Engelmann
Language in W/C is deficient.
Cultural dep:Douglas
Parents attitude is crucial in shaping children’s motivation
Cultural dep:Fernstein
Lack of parental support leads to underachievement.
Cultural dep:Sugarman
Identified 4 barriers to educational achievement for W/C.
Fatalism.
Collectivism.
Immediate gratification.
Present time orientation.
Cultural capital:Bourdieu
Old boys Network.
Habitus
M/C better equipped to meet demands of school curriculum.
Parents convert cultural capital into economic capital.
Cultural capital:Evans
M/C mothers understand education system.
Cultural capital:Ball et al
M/C parents choose best school, play system
What’s material dep?
Lack basic necessities
Born to fail
Material dep:Woldofgel and Washbook (housing)
Likely to be ill and missing school
Material dep:Cooper and Stewart (housing)
Not in catchment area
Material dep:Wilkinson (diet)
Poor diet cause emotional and behavioral issues.
Free school meals
Material dep:Smith and Noble (material goods)
Low income fam put a barrier.
Lack fundamental resources.
Hidden cost.
Tanner (material goods)
Lack oppor for extra learning.
Hirisch (material goods)
M/C, structured life outside.
Eva:external factors
Cultural differences between classes in modern world exaggerated.
Blackstone and Mortimore, parental interest can’t be measured.
Evans, observations and interviews on a W/C council estate, W/C parents have high aspiration.
Gaine and Geoge, Bernstein oversimplify speech patterns.
Blame W/C for their own failure.
Labeling:Becker
Interviewed teachers in a Chicago school.
Abilities determined on appearance.
Teacher judge a label pupils according to how closely to fit into the ideal pupil image.
Labeling:Dunne and Gazeley
Labels, main reason cause underachievement
What is SFP?
Can be pos or neg.
Labeler observe something fit the label, reinforces, teacher and students behavior change.
Internalize and act upon the label.
SFP:Rosenthal and Jacobsen
Fake IQ test, told teachers a random 20% were bright bloomers, returned a year later found ones labeled as bloomers made more progress.
SFP:Hargreaves, Hester and Mellor
Different factors make students get labeled
What’s setting and streaming?
Setting-Grouped by ability according to subject.
Streaming-groups according to general academic ability.
Gilborn and Youdell
Educational triage.
Link to marketization.
W/C, hopeless
Setting and streaming:Ball
Studied banding system in a comprehensive school.
Secondary uses primary school reports, determine the 1 of 3 bands they should be in.
Low expectations on W/C, directed to practical subjects and lower level exams.
Setting and streaming:Ireson and Hallam
Participants aged 14-15 using questionnaire in 23 secondary schools.
Students in higher sets tend to have a pos self-concept.
Setting and streaming:Keddie
Observed classes from different streams studying same subjects.
Simplified content in lower streams, questions seen as a distraction.
Complex contents in higher streams, questions taken seriously and answered in detail.