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Unit 3 Role+function Flashcards

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Althusser

Marxist

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Ideological state apparatus- maintain class inequalities, transmit ruling class ideologies through hidden curriculum

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Bowles+Gintis

Marxist

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Correspondence theory- what you learn in school prepares you for exploitation in workplace

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Willis

Marxist

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Learning to labour
‘Lads/ear oles’
Anti-school, led to shop floor culture WC boys

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Rikowski

Marxist

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Education has become a global commodity- a product of buying and selling

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Cote

Marxist

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Education prepares an over-qualified reserve army of labour

Not enough graduate jobs

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Bourdieu

Marxist

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Cultural capital benefits MC- cultural capital=educational success- pay for tutors/books/trips etc

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Gerwitz

Marxist

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MC= ‘privileged skills choosers’

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Ball

Marxist

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MC parents manipulate the system

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Cohen

Marxist

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Youth training was to cultivate ‘good attitudes’ in young people, training actually de-skilled the workforce

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Finn

Marxist

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Vocational education used to make young people employable- right attitudes for low paid+low skilled work

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Green

Marxist

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Vocational education- basic/ transferable skills related to unskilled/ low paid jobs in retail rather than craft skills

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University tuition fees
(Commodity- Rikowski)
Marxist

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Over £9k/year- educations being run like a business

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Graduate jobs
(Cote)
Marxist

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Graduate jobs would pay £30k+ but now starting pay is £19-22k/year depending on profession

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DFE 2012
(Bourdieu- cultural capital)
Marxist

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35% GCSE students FSM= 5 A*-C

62% GCSE students no FSM= 5 A*-C

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Sutton Trust
(Bourdieu- cultural capital)
Marxist

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50% students attending elite Westminster schools got a place in Oxford/ Cambridge

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Durkheim

Functionalist

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Education is functional for teaching children skills for specialised division of labour in society

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Parsons

Functionalist

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Sees school as a microcosm of society- represents a miniature version of society
Bridge from family to wider society

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Davis and Moore

Functionalist

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Education performs role allocation and grades people in terms of ability, which is rewarded in exam success

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Kelly

Feminist

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books and textbooks where women are portrayed as dependent on men and the absence of women in science texts

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Colley

Feminist

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female students being made to feel uncomfortable in certain subjects, e.g computing where boys ‘colonise’ the space around the computers and teachers fail to intervene, leaving girls feeling excluded

Subject choice based on: learning environment, subject preferences+perception of gender roles

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Skelton

Feminist

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‘hidden curriculum’ responsible for perpetuating gender differences in subject choices

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Heaton+Lawson

Feminist

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the ‘hidden curriculum’ is a major source of gender socialisation and operates in 5 ways:

  • books + textbooks
  • female students feel uncomfortable
  • teacher expectations
  • patriarchal curriculum
  • lack of positive role models
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Becker

Interactionist

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‘Ideal pupil’- more likely to achieve

WC=labelled as less likely to achieve- self-fulfilling prophecy

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Keddie

Interactionist

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‘A’ and ‘C’ streamers- A labelled more positively+trusted to work alone than C- self-fulfilling prophecies: A increased achievement, C lack of achievement

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Jasper

Interactionist

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Reason for bad pupils- institutional racism from teachers

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Hargreaves

Interactionist

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Speculation, working hypothesis, elaboration and stabilisation

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Speculation

Hargreaves-Interactionist

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Initial guesses by teachers about students’ abilities based on appearance and discipline

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Working hypothesis

Hargreaves-Interactionist

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Based on interaction with students- teachers develop theories about the ‘type of student they are talking to’

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Elaboration

Hargreaves-Interactionist

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Teachers’ initial ‘hypothesis’ is tested in the classroom- they either confirm or reject their ‘guesses’ based on observing the student

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Stabilisation

Hargreaves-Interactionist

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The teacher feels they know the student and interpret everything about them based on their judgements and interactions eg if they were labelled as ‘deviant’ it is difficult for the teacher to see that students’ behaviour in a positive way

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Gillborn

Interactionist

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Institutional racism within schools because they were picking on EMG for being disruptive+threats

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Abraham

Interactionist

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Class+gender ideologies promoted in by teachers who subconsciously label students. Suggests that teachers need specific training to recognise this labelling leads to underachievement of WC

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Usher

Postmodernist

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Increasing diversity, choice and change that characterises today’s society and the need to meet the demands of contemporary society

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Bryant+Edwards

Postmodernist

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Education can be used to influence identity and argue that adult education can play a big part in this

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Illich

Liberal

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Students are encouraged to pick courses from a wide range of disciplines

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A.S. Neil’s Summerhill School

Liberal

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Allows students more choice about their education

Develop range of skills rather than just following the formal curriculum

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Marketisation

New right

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The education system should operate on the same principle as the market for goods and services

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Parentocracy

New right

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Schools should respond to what consumers want (parentocracy) and resources will go to the most successful in attracting ‘customers’ and the least successful will have to improv, shut or be taken over by the more successful

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Raise standards

New right

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A market-led system will make education more accountable and save tax payers’ money
Eg- praise 1988 Education Reform Act that aimed to raise standards through introducing the National Curriculum

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Halsey

Social Democratic

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Education does not meet the role of providing equality and criticise Grammar Schools by stating that they benefit the MC- can afford tutors to pass rigorous 11+

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New Labour (1997)
Social Democratic
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Inequalities prevent individuals from some chances, so the gov introduced compensatory measures (EMA+Sure Start) to bring about greater equality

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