Section A Unit 3 - Education (re-make) Flashcards
What is Durkheim’s Role 1 in education?
Teaching social solidarity and value consensus, ensuring a community.
What is Durkheim’s Role 2 in education?
Provision of specialist skills for the workplace.
What is Parsons’ Role 3 in education?
Secondary socialisation, focusing on individual values in the home and universalistic values.
What is Davis & Moore’s Role 4 in education?
It allocates roles ready for the workplace based on functional importance and meritocracy.
What is the first function of standards in education?
Improve standards through reducing state involvement & increasing a Parentocracy.
Includes the use of league tables and OFSTED as regulatory bodies.
What are league tables?
Publicly published rankings of schools encouraging them to be the best.
What is OFSTED?
A regulatory body ensuring the standard of education for all.
What is the second function of shared British culture?
Promote traditional ‘Conservative values’ and enforce a ‘shared (British) culture’.
Includes Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 banning the promotion of homosexuality.
What does Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 entail?
Banning the promotion of homosexuality and promoting heterosexual marriage.
What are British Values as defined in 2011?
All lessons should incorporate British Values, especially tolerance.
What is the third function of Murray in education?
Encourage values of competition & meritocracy.
Critiques the egalitarian system for asking too much from those at the bottom and not enough from those at the top.
What is the fourth function of vocational skills in education?
Transmits and teaches vocational skills.
What are examples of vocationalism?
Youth Training Scheme (YTS), National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs), and General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs).
YTS offers on-the-job training for NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).
What is the Hidden Curriculum according to Bowles & Gintis?
The Hidden Curriculum benefits some students and disadvantages others.
What does the Correspondence Principle state?
Education corresponds with work and prepares students for the workplace.
What discipline does the school system encourage?
Schools encourage punctuality, hard work, and obedience while discouraging creativity, independent thinking, and critical awareness.
How are students motivated in education?
Students are often motivated by external rewards like qualifications rather than satisfaction from learning.
What does the hierarchy in education prepare pupils for?
It prepares pupils to accept authority above them.
What is the Counter-school culture described by Willis?
It opposes the values of the school and their teachers, with ‘lads’ valuing working-class jobs over academic success.
What does Bourdieu say about education and class?
Education is created by the middle class and supports middle class values, while the working class lacks the cultural capital needed to succeed.
What is Althusser’s view on education as an ideological state apparatus?
Education transmits capitalist ideology by teaching that capitalism is normal and fair, and by grading pupils for unequal positions in society.
How does education make inequality appear natural according to Althusser?
By selecting and grading pupils, schools make inequality seem natural and legitimate, attributing failures to individual lack of ability or motivation.
