Postmodern Explanations Of Education

Question 1

What are the 5 postmodern explanations of education?

Answer 1

1. There is greater diversity and choice within the education system
2. Education has become individualised
3. Education has become a consumer product
4. Education has become fragmented
5. Education has become media saturated

Question 2

Who argues that there is greater diversity and choice within the education system?

Answer 2

Usher and Edwards

Question 3

Who is used as AO3 for the argument “there is greater diversity and choice within the education system”?

Answer 3

Diane Reay

Question 4

Who argues that education has become individualised?

Answer 4

Usher and Edwards

Question 5

What is used as AO3 for the argument “education has become individualised” ?

Answer 5

Bowles and Gintis

Question 6

Who argues that education has become a consumer product?

Answer 6

Usher, Bryant and Johnston

Question 7

Who is used as AO3 for the argument “education has become a consumer product” ?

Answer 7

Bourdieu

Question 8

Who argues that education has become fragmented?

Answer 8

Lyotard

Question 9

Who is used as AO3 for the argument “education has become fragmented” ?

Answer 9

Durkheim or Parsons

Question 10

Who argues that education has become media saturated?

Answer 10

McLuhan / Livingstone

Question 11

What is used as AO3 for the argument “education has become media saturated”?

Answer 11

Covid / Smith and Noble - barriers to learning

Question 12

What does Usher and Edwards argue in terms of education having greater diversity and choice?

Answer 12

That there is no ‘best’ system of education or ‘best’ curriculum that should be followed in all schools

Question 13

What does Diane Reay show?

Answer 13

That working class pupils are more likely to attend local universities to save money

Question 14

What does usher and Edwards argue in terms of education becoming individualised?

Answer 14

That the education system should take account of cultural pluralism and of the importance of individuals in shaping education to meet their own individual needs

Question 15

What are example of greater individualisation within the education system?

Answer 15

1. Teaching styles
2. Learner pathways
3. Cultural pluralism
4. Adult and life long learning
5. Home education

Question 16

What would Bowles and Gintis argue about education becoming individualised?

Answer 16

They would suggest that certain values are taught in school through the hidden curriculum. They would argue that individualism doesn’t exist in education because they are all taught the same values, wear the same uniform, eat together etc

Question 17

What does usher, Bryant and Johnston argue?

Answer 17

That people no longer have a single sense of identity as they are increasingly free to create it for themselves from a range of different sources and influences

Question 18

What does Bourdieu argue?

Answer 18

That it is not only money that gives the wealthy power, but cultural assets too

Question 19

What does Lyotard argue?

Answer 19

That in the postmodern era the ‘grand narratives’ of functionalism, Marxism and feminism have been rejected, replacing them with individual narratives and multiple identities. As a result, society has fragmented

Question 20

According to Lyotard, why has society fragmented?

Answer 20

Because there is no longer a set of shared or fixed values, leading to instability, uncertainty and confusion

Question 21

What does McLuhan argue?

Answer 21

That as a result of technological change, young people are able to access a broad range of information