Postmodern Explanations Of Education Flashcards
What are the 5 postmodern explanations of education?
- There is greater diversity and choice within the education system
- Education has become individualised
- Education has become a consumer product
- Education has become fragmented
- Education has become media saturated
Who argues that there is greater diversity and choice within the education system?
Usher and Edwards
Who is used as AO3 for the argument “there is greater diversity and choice within the education system”?
Diane Reay
Who argues that education has become individualised?
Usher and Edwards
What is used as AO3 for the argument “education has become individualised” ?
Bowles and Gintis
Who argues that education has become a consumer product?
Usher, Bryant and Johnston
Who is used as AO3 for the argument “education has become a consumer product” ?
Bourdieu
Who argues that education has become fragmented?
Lyotard
Who is used as AO3 for the argument “education has become fragmented” ?
Durkheim or Parsons
Who argues that education has become media saturated?
McLuhan / Livingstone
What is used as AO3 for the argument “education has become media saturated”?
Covid / Smith and Noble - barriers to learning
What does Usher and Edwards argue in terms of education having greater diversity and choice?
That there is no ‘best’ system of education or ‘best’ curriculum that should be followed in all schools
What does Diane Reay show?
That working class pupils are more likely to attend local universities to save money
What does usher and Edwards argue in terms of education becoming individualised?
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
What are example of greater individualisation within the education system?
- Teaching styles
- Learner pathways
- Cultural pluralism
- Adult and life long learning
- Home education
What would Bowles and Gintis argue about education becoming individualised?
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
What does usher, Bryant and Johnston argue?
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
What does Bourdieu argue?
That it is not only money that gives the wealthy power, but cultural assets too
What does Lyotard argue?
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
According to Lyotard, why has society fragmented?
Because there is no longer a set of shared or fixed values, leading to instability, uncertainty and confusion
What does McLuhan argue?
That as a result of technological change, young people are able to access a broad range of information
