Role of Education Flashcards
What do Functionalists say about the role of education in society?
Education is an important social institution; meets the needs of society and maintains stability.
What do Marxists say about the role of education?
Education aims to legitimise and reproduce class inequalities by forming a subservient class and workforce; passive and docile.
What is the New Right view on education?
Society is based on a shared set of norms and values and national curriculums help affirm national identity. Believe in the marketisation of education.
What is the postmodernist view on education?
A postmodern education should be diverse, individualised and allow choice; more diverse and offer more choice of subjects and learning pathways to learners, one might also expect it to be more playful, more hyperreal and express a certain incredulity towards metanarratives.
What is the interactionist approach to education?
Focus on the interactions between pupils and between pupils and teachers, looking at concepts such as labelling at the processes and relationships that happen within schools.
How has Globalisation affected education?
Education is more multicultural, challenges the relevance of a ‘National curriculum’, challenges the authority of traditional schooling.
Define Value Consensus (Parsons)
The need for societies to have a common set of beliefs and principles to work with and towards
What did Durkheim say about the role of education?
School was a ‘society in miniature’, and education provided children with necessary secondary socialisation.
What do Davis and Moore say about education?
Social stratification, role allocation and meritocracy start in education.
What do Chubb and Moe say about the role of education?
Chubb and Moe conducted a study comparing the attainment levels of pupils from low-income households using parental surveys, statistics, and case studies. They found that state education is not meritocratic, as pupils from low-income households were less able to succeed; myth of meritocracy?
What did Althusser say about the role of education?
Education is made to seem fair when it is not; laws and legislation that promote educational equality are also part of the system that subjugates pupils and reproduces inequalities.
What did Bowles and Gintis say about the role of education?
The correspondence principle - education mirrors the workplace in its organisation, rewards systems and a range of other factors.
What did Bourdieu say about the role of education?
The education system legitimates class inequalities. Success in the education system is facilitated by the possession of cultural capital and of higher-class habitus. W/c students fall behind because of this.
What did Willis’ study reveal?
He claimed that ‘the lads’ had formed an anti-school subculture. They rejected school and all its values and instead focussed on the day they would eventually be allowed to leave. They formed their own set of values opposed to those of the school.
What did Ball say about the role of education?
By acting irresponsibly, teachers take responsibility for the care of their selves and make it clear that the social reality is not as inevitable as it may seem.
