Role Of Education Flashcards
Social Solidarity
Education should bring pupils together in a sense of community, providing them with a role to play and a sense of cooperation with others.
Society in miniature
Education imitates the ways in which adults engage with one another in the wider world of work and social interaction.
Specialised Division of Labour
Education is an essential social institution for helping to maintain the economy.
Particularistic standards
Children are judged by parents as they set their own rules and expectations of their children, but this will ultimately vary from family to family.
Universalistic Standards
In schools and wider society, you are expected to follow the same rules and work towards the same goals.
Ascribed
In the family, a child’s status is ascribed and they will likely be valued regardless of how successful they are.
Meritocracy
All children in school are afforded the same opportunities, and how successful they are will be determined by a combination of intelligence and work ethic.
Human Capital
The area in which their skills are richest, which will enable them to pursue careers which are most suitable for their ability.
Ideological State Apparatus
Control over the what the working class think. These apparatus pass on dominant ideology and is done through institutions like the family, religion and education. The ruling class pass on their ideas and beliefs.
Correspondence principle
Schools mirror the world of work which makes students and then workers passive to hierarchy, maintains capitalism.
Hidden Curriculum
Subliminal messages which students process & internalise before eventually taking them into the workplace as adults.
Myth of meritocracy
People are wrongly led to believe that the education system is fair, so any inequalities between the classes in terms of success can be justified by attributing the blame to working class pupils themselves.
Counter-Culture
Working class boys actively reject the system through disobeying the school rules creating a counter culture.
New Right
A Conservative political perspective which incorporates neoliberal idea
Neoliberalism
The view that the state should have very limited involvement in the provision of services to wider society, and that it is down to individual providers to take responsibility for the services they provide.
