Inside factors - Theoretical Explanations Flashcards
Althusser Marxism
Suggest that education system is manipulated and designed to ensure that students are ‘trained’ from a young age to be unquestioning, subordinate, hard-working and conformist - students are not encouraged to think creatively to avoid a revolution, ensure that they are easy to manipulate within the workplace - main victims those from the working class
Bowles and Gintis Marxism
Education serves to reproduce the capitalist relations of production with appropriate skills and attitudes
Education ensures that the workers will unquestioningly adapt to the needs of the system.
‘Correspondence principle’ = what goes on in the school corresponds directly to the world of work
Example: teachers are like bosses and pupils are like workers who work for rewards.
That pupils who fit in and conform, rise above those who express attitudes or display behaviour which challenge the system.
Durkheim Functionalism
Education should emphasise the moral responsibilities that members of society
Should pass on social solidarity and value consensus = shared norms and values
Education ensures people have skills for specialised division of labour.
Claimed that standardised testing helps assess skills
Davis and Moore Functionalism
Education forms role allocation - sift, sort and grade students, those with the the most ability are then rewarded in meritocratic society in terms of economic rewards to ensure the best people fill the most functionally important roles
