Education With Theory And Methods (Paper 1)

Question 1

3x Functionalist functions of education

Answer 1

• Social solidarity/ core values
• Skills for work
• Role allocation/ meritocracy

Question 2

3x Marxist functions of education

Answer 2

• Legitimizing class inequality
• correspondence principle
• Reproduction of class inequality

Question 3

3x New right functions of education

Answer 3

• Fosters competition/ entrepreneurialism
• Give parents choice
• Prepare students for work

Question 4

3x feminist functions of education

Answer 4

• Lib: education seems to have benefitted girls
• Rad: Subject choice reproduces gender inequality
• Rad: abuse in schools often ignored

Question 5

3x Postmodernist functions of education

Answer 5

• Against universal education
• Believe in radical freedom (home education)
• Promotes choice and individual freedom

Question 6

4x Cultural factors (ethnicity and diff achieve)

Answer 6

• Family structure (single parent households)
• Parental attitudes
• Language differences
• Black anti school masculine street cultures

Question 7

Tripartite system

Answer 7

• 11+ test
• 3 types of school
• grammar schools
• secondary modern schools

Question 8

Comprehensive schools

Answer 8

• Abolition of the 11+
• One type of school for all pupils
• Non selective education
• equality of opportunity

Question 9

1988 education reform act

Answer 9

• Marketisation
• Parentocracy
• League tables
• OFSTED
• Formula funding
• The national curriculum

Question 10

New labour

Answer 10

• Academies
• Sure start
• Literacy and numeracy hour
• Education maintenance allowance
• Higher education tuition fees

Question 11

Criticisms of tripartite system

Answer 11

• Unfair for late developers
• Gender bias in 11+ and subject choice
• Secondary moderns were inferior

Question 12

Criticisms of Comprehensive schools

Answer 12

• Banding and streaming reproduced class inequality under the same roof
• Parents had too little choice

Question 13

Criticisms of 1988 education reform

Answer 13

• Selection by mortgage
• Cream skimming
• Teaching to the test

Question 14

Criticisms of new labour

Answer 14

• EMA was too little too late
• Later academies weren’t any better than LEA schools
• Tuition fees put working classes off university

Question 15

Durkheim

Answer 15

• 2 main functions: social solidarity and specialist skills
• Transmits society’s culture from one generation to the next

Question 16

Parsons

Answer 16

• Schools are meritocratic
• Education is a bridge between family and wider society

Question 17

Davis and Moore

Answer 17

• Schools select and allocate pupils to their future work roles

Question 18

Althusser

Answer 18

• Reproduction and legitimation of class inequality

Question 19

Bowles and gintis

Answer 19

• Hidden curriculum
• myth of meritocracy
• schools create new generations of workers

Question 20

Willis

Answer 20

• Pupils can see through working class ideology and resist attempts to indoctrinate it in school

Question 21

Chubb and Moe

Answer 21

• State education has failed to create equal opportunity
• Parents cannot do anything about failing schools
• Private schools deliver higher quality education