Perspectives On Education Flashcards
What is Functionalism view on education?
is that it’s an important social institution that meets the society need and maintain social stability
What is Durkheim social solidarity?
Education promotes social solidarity through social cohesion such as Enrichment which will give them a sense of unity
Education ensures that solidarity is not lost by teaching students their share heritage which gives them a sense of place in society this can be achieved through subjects like history, literature and music this will allow students to understand aspect of culture
What does Durkheim say about specialist skills?
where production of even a single item usually involved the cooperation of many different specialist which cooperation promotes social solidarity
What does Parson say about Education?
Parsons believed that school provide a link between the family and wider society which allows students to move from ascribed status and particularistic values of home to meritocratic and universalistic values of wider society
-Education promotes individualism than collectivism
What is Meritocracy?
Jobs and rewards are allocated because of effort, ability, and talent through competition to determine status
What is Schultz Developing Human capital?
Education can provide proper trained qualified workforce. education make sure the best and most qualified people end up in job that require the most skilled
What is David and Moore role allocation?
Society need required skill workforce that is fully qualified for certain roles require certain aptitudes
-Education prepare students for these roles based upon ability they achieve this by ‘sift and sorts’
What is Sift and Sorts?
Most able end up in higher position and lower ability end up in lower positions
What is New Right view on Education?
there should be competition between schools and as well as socialising pupils with the skills to promote (marketisation) would raise standards and school attract customers (Parents) with impressive school results
What is Chubb and Moe Voucher system?
family is given a ‘voucher’ to spend on their children’s education from a school of their choice. This encourages schools to be more responsive to their ‘consumers’ needs and compete with other schools, as said vouchers would be their main source of funding.
What is Marxism view on Education?
Althusser Reproduction of Social Inequality
Bowles and Gintis Myth of Meritocracy
Bowles and Gintis Correspondence principal
Why does Althusser say education is Reproduction of Social Inequality?
Althusser suggest that the bourgeoisie mantain power by using both:
-Repressive state apparatus and Ideological State Apparatus
-Althusser suggest Education prepares students for exploitations and suggest education reproduce the dominate ideology of working class
-Education promotes meritocracy but their is many barriers for working class students from achieving this but it’s material factors which prevent them
What is Bowles and Gintis Myth of Meritocracy?
-Education claims to be meritoractic but schools discriminate as they favour of the middle class e.g. language or culture capital
-Education is a myth of meritocracy to design to justify inequality by promoting the idea that failure is due to lack of hardwork rarther than injustices in society
-The Hidden Curriculum lowers working class ambitions
What is Bowles and Gintis Correspondence principal?
-School process mirror the world of work in order to prepare them for manual labour
‘long shadow of work’ was casted over education system and the function is to prepare the next workforce for society this was done through hidden curriculum
What are the examples of Correspondence principle?
Hierarchy
Alienation
Dress-code
Competition
