theoretical explanations Flashcards
1
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marxists
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hidden curriculum passes on ruling class ideologies
2
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althusser
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- the education system is part of the superstructure and is directly impacted by the infrastructure meaning that it is designed in a way that will ultimately benefit the bourgeoisie
- education has 2 roles: pass on necessary skills to create a workforce, and to pass on ruling class ideologies
- ruling class uses ideological control within education as a way of making sure that students conform to rules as a way of training them for the workplace
- education is part of the ideological state apparatus
- education plays a key role in ensuring that the working class are kept in a subordinate position
- education system is manipulated and designed to ensure that students are trained from a young age to be unquestioning, subordinate etc
3
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Bowles and gintis
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- education serves to reproduce the capitalist relation of production with the appropriate skills and attitudes
- education ensures that workers will unquestioningly adapt to the needs of the system
- correspondence principle
- what goes on in school corresponds to the workplace
4
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functionalist
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education prepares people for the workplace
5
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Durkheim
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- education should emphasise the moral responsibilities that members of society have towards each other
- it should pass on social solidarity and value consensus
- education ensures people have the skills for specialised divisions of labour
6
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davis and Moore
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- education performs role allocation and helps sift, sort and grade students
- those with the most ability in exam success are then rewarded in a meritocratic society in terms of economic rewards to ensure the best people fill the most functionally important roles
