Lesson 4 comparing perspectives 📚

Question 1

What are ‘boy’ subjects?

Answer 1

.maths,engineering,computing,history

Question 2

What are ‘girl’ subjects?

Answer 2

.drama,english,childcare,food tech

Question 3

Summary of Marxist theories on education

Answer 3

.bowles and gintis:correspondence principle
.cultural capital
.status->inherited
.not meritocratic

Question 4

Summary of functionalist views on education

Answer 4

.status is achieved
.meritocratic status
.value consensus
.believe in something bigger
.durkheim->seeing history as very important

Question 5

Summary of feminist views on education

Answer 5

.wilkinson:genderquake
.girls achieve because priorities change
.frances + Skelton (2005) girls adopt more male traits