Perspectives on the purpose of education Flashcards
What is the function of education according to Durkheim?
Social solidarity and teaching specialist skills.
How does education act as a Bridge according to Parsons?
Parsons argues education is the bridge between home and work, particularistic and universalistic standards
What is the purpose of education according to Davis and Moore?
Davis and Moore say the function of education is to role allocate. Pupils can select their future working role.
Marx’s view on the purpose of education
Equal opportunity does not exist for different classes and ethnicities.
Education transmits the value of the bourgeoise, not the values of society as a whole.
Althusser’s (a marxist) view on the inequality in education
Athulsser
The educational system reproduces inequality by transmitting it generationally.
Marxism - Correspondence principle
whose theory is that?
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Evaluation of this theory
Bowles and Gintis
Evaluation
This theory is too deterministic, assumes pupils passively accept the school’s routines.
Evaluation of marxism
Femists argue maxists ignore how patriarchy is reproduced.
New Right perspective on education
Chub and Moe
Chubb and Moe argue that state education has failed to create equality of opportunity and does not produce the right skills for economy. Supports marketisation
Evaluation of the New Right perspective that supports marketisation of education.
Gerwitz and Ball - the competition benefits Middle Class
Marxists - New Right imposes the culture of the ruling class.
Outline three roles for the state
1 The state imposes framework on which schools have to compete.
2 State ensures that schools transmit a shared culture,
- Affirm nationality/culture
Who gives evidence for the Marxist claim ‘ Education is an Ideological State Apparatus ‘?
He/she says that education is an ISA because it reproduces inequality through socialisation and legitimates class inequality through the ideology of meritocracy.
Althusser
What are the two main factors that determine your success according to Bowles and Gintis?
Bowles and Gintis have found evidence that the main factor that determine your success is income and class background. And schools disguise that by making people believe they have an equal opportunity.
