Post modernism

Question 1

Key Ideas about Education

Answer 1

• Stand against universalising education systems.
• See Modernist education as oppressive to many students – especially minority groups
• Believe the ‘factory production- line mentality of education kills creativity • Home Education, Liberal forms of education, Adult Education and Life Long Learnin and Education outside of formal education (leisure)

Question 2

Supporting Evidence

Answer 2

• Many people agree that schools do kill creativity (Ted Robinson, and Suli- Breaks)
• Sue Palmer – Teaching the test has resulted in school being miserable and stressful for many pupils.
• Do we really want an education system more like the Chinese one?
• The National Curriculum has been criticised as being ethnocentric (potentially oppressive to minority groups).

Question 3

Criticisms/ Limitations

Answer 3

• Late-Modernists - we need schools to promote tolerance of diversity.
• Neoliberalism – we need a competitive system to drive up standards in order to be able to compete in a global free market!
• Marxists argue that home education would lead to greater inequality – not all parents have an equal ability –middle classes will benefit more, and working class kids will be left behind.
• Liberal forms of education may result in the survival of the fittest’