role of education

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

functionalist
education: social solidarity by transmitting society’s culture from one generation to the next.
specialist skills

Question 2

Parsons

Answer 2

functionalist
education: meritocratic and agent of socialisation bridge between family and wider society

Question 3

davis & moore

Answer 3

functionalist
education
allocating pupils to the job their skills match

Question 4

Althusser

Answer 4

marxist
education:
reproduction
legitimation

Question 5

Bowles & Gintis

Answer 5

marxist
education:
- myth of meritocracy
- school creates new gens of workers to serve the capitalist system
- hidden curriculum to serve capitalism

Question 6

Chubb & moe

Answer 6

the new right
education:
-state schools fail students and parents and they can’t do anything due to being run by state
-private/public schools
deliver high quality due to parents paying

Question 7

liberal feminism

Answer 7

there has been a steady improvement in girls experience of school and girls achievement

Question 8

radical feminism

Answer 8

education
- role of education is to maintain gender inequality
- gendered language
- gendered roles
- gendered stereotypes

Question 9

the new right

Answer 9

schools should be centred around competition and choice, through marketisation. creating an ‘education market’, schools forced to respond to the needs of teachers, parents and pupils.