Role of education Flashcards
What is the Marxist view on the role and purpose of education?
Education aims to legitimise and reproduce class inequalities by forming a subservient class and workforce.
What is the Functionalist view on the role and purpose of education?
Education is an important social institution that helps meet the needs of society and maintain stability.
What is the New Right view on the role and purpose of education?
The purpose of education is to promote drive, enterprise and initiative in young people.
What is the Social Democratic view on the role and purpose of education?
They believe that governments should invest heavily in education and use education as a means to improve equality of opportunity (Ensuring it contributes to economic growth).
What is the Neo-Liberal view on the role and purpose of education?
That education systems should be run according to free market principles (Education should be privatised - Parents and students given more choice).
What does Durkheim say about the role and purpose of education?
Education provided children with necessary secondary socialisation (serving the needs of society - Creating social solidarity and developing specialist skills).
What does Parsons say about the role and purpose of education?
Educational institutions focus on the transmission of the importance of achievement and the value of equality of opportunity.
What does Davis and Moore say about the role and purpose of education?
Education and wider society were both meritocratic.
What does Althusser say about the role and purpose of education?
Education is a powerful Ideological State Apparatus (Functions to socialise children into two ideas - Success and Failure being a reflection of talent).
What does Bowles and Gintis say about the role and purpose of education?
Education casts a shadow of over work (Capitalist ruling class created education as an institution to serve their own interest - Education preparing working-class children to serve the ruling class/reproduction).
What does Bourdieu say about the role and purpose of education?
The education systems of industrialised societies function in a way to legitimate class inequalities (Educational success is facilitated by the possession of higher-class habits).
What does Willis say about the role and purpose of education?
‘laddish’ subcultures at school prepares those for manual labour by reproducing the set values serving as a coping mechanism (An easily exploitable workforce which serves the interests of capitalism).
What does Ball say about the role and purpose of education?
By acting irresponsibly, teachers take responsibility for the care of their selves and make it clear that social reality is not inevitable as it may seem (Pupils put in classes based on their ability - Students diverging when banned/streamed).
