names for education Flashcards
Durkheim
Functionalist, believes education is a form of secondary socialisation as it teaches universalistic norms and values. Instils social solidarity in students.
Davis and Moore
Functionalist, believes meritocracy allows for role allocation and sifting and sorting. Stratification is good and necessary. People work hard to gain rewards.
Chubb and Moe (New Right)
Students need to be prepared for a market economy. Private school models work much better due to parentocracy. Competition is important as it raises standards.
Althusser
Marxist. Ideological state apparatus, enforces bourgeois ideology in students. The formal and hidden curriculum both reinforce capitalist norms and values.
Bowles and Gintis
Marxist. Correspondence principle between school and work which prepares students for a life of exploitation.
Bourdieu
Habitus, where a middle class habitus is favoured in education which alienates working class kids.
Bernstein
Believes in language codes as working class students have a restricted language code compared to middle class kids who have an elaborated language code.
Ball
3 groups in a study supposedly based on ability, but ended up reproducing social class. The sets also influenced the labels given to students by the teachers.
Gilborn and Youdell
Educational triage of students who are definitely going to get their five 4s, those who are hopeless cases and those who are borderline and need some help. Pressure of league tables to maintain ranking causes this.
Also teachers are quick to discipline black students compared to other students for the same behaviour, and therefore see black students as anti-authority and misinterpret their behaviour.
Rosenthal and Jacobson
Labels lead to self fulfilling prophecies and impact achievement. Students randomly labelled high achievers performed better than students labelled underachievers.
Reay
Students align their ability with the type of school they attend, e.g. students at a high achieving school are more likely to form pro school subcultures.
Douglas
Working class parents have a different culture and put less value on education for their children, and therefore are less likely to push their children in education.
Driver and Ballard
Language barriers and differences cease to be a problem by age 16. Also argue that Asian parents are more likely to be pro-school
Keddie
Cultural deprivation is a myth and to blame culture is victim blaming. Working class students fail because they are put at a disadvantage by discrimination from the middle class dominated education system, and schools should work with working class culture.
