Education role and function Flashcards
functionalist education
roll allocation- davis and moore
- inequality is necessary to ensure the most important rolls are done by the most talented people
-not everyone is equally talented more money i given to those with higer talents
-encourages people to compete for them society can pick the most talented
-education shifts and sorts us according to ability mats able get higher qualifications. gives them rntry to the most important and highest rewarded jobs.
functionalist education
Development human capital- Shaltz
-economy works on using “human capital” its workers skills
-a meritocrat education does this by enabling each person to find what best suites there ability.
-Makes the most efficient of there talent maximises there productivity.
functionalist education
Bridge between family & society- Parson
- in family particular rules that only apply to one child A subscribes status fixed by birth.
-In schools universal stander apply to everyone. status in achieved.
functionalist education
socialisation & social solidarity- Durkheim
-transfers society’s culture to next generation like PSHE lessons
-Miniture society helps us learn real world skills like working with people we do not like
-gives people knowledge and skills to play there part in the social division of labour
Althusser 1971
and criticisms
marxism
- education as an idelogical state approach
-marxists see the state as a way the capitilists rulling class maintain there dominant position
-2 appiratissuses- force (police court, army, suppresses), ideological (controlled through thoughts ideas and belifes)
-education role- reproduces inequality across generations by. fauling wc students, legitimises class inequality by producing ideas that descise the true cause
-teaches students necessary skills for employment
criticisms
-Limited empirical evidence for his ideas
-Post-modernist say education is only one way of expressing ability in contemporary society
-Functionalist agree with Marxist ideas but suggest that they are beneficial for the society
-Deterministic more children from manual labour background going to success further study (however still only 9%)
Bourdieu 1977
Culture capital
marxism
-dominate classes power of education system and what it provides
-Culture reproduction- Habits field culture capital(more in upper class) separation between classes
-class capital- those in higher to middle class have more experiences that gives them an in built advantage to succeed even before they go to school.
-makes it easier for higher class to stay where they are born and ligitimises the higher social class position when in adult hood.
Willis and the lads
learing to labour
- 12 nights at a school in Wolverhampton in the 20s Developed an anti-school culture Didn’t care about qualifications wanted to leave the control of education skived disturb lessons
-‘eor oles’ Conforming people - School was pointless boring irrelevant to life wanted to get to the real world stop him drinking smoking getting real jobs cash
-found parallels between working-class men and this subculture e.g. Sexism lack of respect for authority
-Marxist perspective recognises that schools doesn’t produce willing obedient workforce
-lad in Wolverhampton schools willing left the system
-understand why MC young people go willing into secure and well-paid jobs. Why WC people go willingly into poor paid jobs
Bowles and gintis 2011 1976
The long shadow of work minions
and criticisms
marxism
-Point of education in a capital society is to create a hard-working submissive force (Minions)
-They do this through hidden curriculum things you’re not talk and shit amazing inequality and class structure, Correspondence principle school mirrors the world of work
- Oppose functionalist views on meritocracy Failure in education isn’t to do with lack of ability or hard work it’s social class and family background
Criticisms
-Functionalist agree with skills for employment but suggests benefit society
-Do students become passive puppet
-Our workers being produced equipped with necessary skills from employment 
illich 1995 and 1996
schooling repression and hegemonic control
marxism
-schools are repressive institutions promotes comforming and encoureges students passive acceptance of exising inequalities.
-do not encourage them to think for them selves or be critical
Go to conform get higher grades and better jobs go to don’t get pushed out of education and end up on the level jobs
-The solution is abolishing school ‘deschooling’ 
New rights role and function of education and there view of education
-Marketisation of education creates competition and choice between schools empowering consumers and increasing schools ability to meet parent, students and employers needs
-government control and fund most education-creates skilled workforce to compete with other country
-education has moved to far created to much equality
-but state education take a one size fits all approach is unresponsive and inefficient
New right
Chubb and moe
- introduce a market system in education that puts control in the hands of parents and communities allows them to shape schools to meet there needs improve quality and efficiency
- schools get a voucher for each of there students from there parents choosing to send there child there and fund there education
-already principles in the private sector. By introducing this would greatly improve market fourcs into the state sector
liberal feminism
-celebrates the success in improving girls achievements.
-“the future is female”
-girls out preform boys in education this will lead to more women in politics getting paid more and have managerial work role
radical feminists
-partially still work through schools to reinforce traditional gender norms and to disadvantage girls
-boy related underachievement are due to a “moral panic”
-boys have still been improving juts not as fast as girls
-focus on education is “raising boys achievements” reflecting a male dominated system panic at the fact that old patriarchal power relations are starting to break down
problems female face according to feminists
-despite improvement in girls education subject choice is still gendered and girls cannot break the “glass ceiling”
reattach suggests that despite girls doing better in education they are still face with sexist bullying something that is become worse with “normalisation of pornograhy”
postmodernism and education
Choice
-identities are fluid not fixed people are free to choice there identities norms and values.
society is constantly changing
-shift in education rom ‘one size fits all’
-critical of marxism as they see education as based on class and not do not see the education and economic system as being diverse
post modernism views on education globalisation
-diverse range of education reflects consumer choice and the needs of the ever changing economy
-impact os globalisation on education
-globalisation means more migrant workers in uk schools more EAL support for the increase in children whos first language isn’t english.
-no one curriculum fits for all, vast range of courses allows learners to pick and mix different combinations of courses to suite there own object and life style
Criticisms of postmodernism
Haralomba-exaggerate the change in education.
-Budget for adult education cut. number of evening classes available has decreased
-Criticised MPs for ignoring the way education may be shapped by big issues. not the needs and wishes of individuals
