Educational concepts Flashcards
Define social solidarity
Where society is unified by shared norms and values.
Define achieved status
The idea that status is not just given to individuals, instead status is something that is achieved through hard work.
Define particularistic standards
Individual standards by which an individual is judged. They are unique, for example particularistic standards are used in the household.
Define Neo-liberalism
A pro-capitalist economic theory that believe that the free market in capitalist economies is the best basis for organising society. They believe that education should not be provided by the state.
Define marketisation.
The marketisation of education involves schools becoming a good to consumers and running as an efficient business model to attract consumers to attend the school.
Define parentocracy
The concept that parents have a degree of influence on how a school is ran. The school is held accountable to their actions by parents.
What is the hidden curriculum?
Lessons which are learned but not openly intended, such as the transmission of norms, values and beliefs conveyed in the classroom and social environment.
What is the correspondence principle?
(Bowles and Gintis) The idea that the norms and values pupils learn in school correspond to the norms and values which will make it easy for future capitalist employers to exploit them at work.
What is an anti-school subculture?
Those placed in lower streams may suffer from a lack of self-esteem, and this pushes them to find an alternate way to gain status, thus they create an anti-school subculture and reject the school values. This involves sabotaging the system that make them inferior.
