the role of education Flashcards
functionalist, marxists, new rights
What’s the functionalist view of education?
Functionalist sees education as a positive institution which benefits all individual, preparing them for their working careers
What are the Marxists view of education?
Marxist believe education supports the need of capitalism at the expense of young people by reproducing existing class inequalities
What are the two main functions of education according to functionalist?
durkheim -
social solidarity
specialist skills
How does creating social solidarity a function for education?
Social solidarity is the idea of bringing people together
Education provides opportunities by transmitting norms, values, and** cultures** shares with wider community
Help socialise children as each institution works together like the human body
How does teaching specialist skills a function of education?
According to durkhiem -
Specialist skills taught to pupil to play social division of labour with their own area of expertise to fit into society
How does meritocracy function in education?
According to parsons -
‘Focal socialising agency’ - Bridge gaps between the family and the wider society
**Students **should be treated equally through inpersonaland universialistic standard- need to display individuals efforts in the world of work to improve status
How does role allocation function in education?
According to Davis and Moore -
Inequality is needed and** everyone should compete for the jobs**
Competition importation to have most talented fill demanding jobs
‘Sift and sort’ according to ability with the best qualification get the job
Evaluation of social solidarity
Faith schools - segregate white from ethnic
Evaluation of specialist skills
Private school have more skills taught compared to state schools
Evaluate meritocracy
according to bowles and gintis -
Myth of meritocracy - designed to make the working classes work hard. Class is the biggest indicator of success rather than ability.
Evaluate** role allocation**
Labelling
streaming
self fulfilling prophecy
What is VET?
Vocational educational training
Functionalist support as it sets ground for ability - teach skills needed for division of labour and provide a skilled workforce
Evaluate new vocationalism
According to Marxists -
New vocational serves the need of capitalism at the expenses if young people by reproducing class inequalities
According to finn -
youth training scheme provides cheap labour for employer keeping unemployment down and reduce social unrest by taking youth off streets
According to buswell -
YTS channel girls into low paid traditional jobs - reproduce gender inequality
How has VET reduced social inequality?
- meritocracy
- Role allocation and social solidarity
- durkhiem and parson on about VET
what are the two functions of education according to marxist?
1. reproduce inequality
2. create an obedient workforce to serve capitalism.
what does marxist believe the functions are for education?
- obediant workforce who are incapable of critical thoughts
- ideological tool used by ruling class to impose their values and beliefs to maintain their power.
what are the ideological state apparatus?
althusser -
the ideological state apparatus maintains the rule of the ruling class by controlling peoples, ideas values and beliefs
what is the repressive state apparatus?
althusser -
the repressive state apparatus maintains the ruling class by force or threat (e.g. police army etc)
althusser -
failing each successive generation of working class pupils in turn, it legitimates class inequality by producing ruling class ideology that disguise as true (ethnocentric curriculum)
how does education produce obedient workforce to serve capitalism?
althusser -
they pursuade workers to accept that their inequality is inevitable, by accepting these ideas, they are less likely to challenge or threat capitalism.
what is the myth of meritocracy?
bowles and gintis -
myth of meritocracy exist in education - the main factor determines whether or not someone has high income and class background not educational achievement
the myth serves the privilege of the higher class
three ways which school mirrors the workplace?
1. dress code
2. accepting hierarchy
3. long hours in school/ time keeping skills
what is the correspondence principle?
the correspondence principle is the mirroring of the education and the workplace operate through the hidden curriculum (dress code, obedience etc)
what does the postmodernist believe the functions are for education?
giddens and beck - marxism is outdated
postmodernist reject the correspondence principle
