Views On Education Flashcards
What is parsons view on education?
What are the two standards he believes pupils need to learn?
Whats meritocracy and what does it do according to parsons?
What is school a miniture of?
Believes that education bridges a gap between family andd wider society
- particularistic: judgements that only apply within the family
- universalistic: judgements that apply to everyone, in school and wider society
Meritocracy is the when everyone gets an equal opportuinity to achieve and its their own effort that counts. According to parsons, meritocracy helps pupils to gain achieved status through those efforts.
Miniture of society
What is solidarity and what does durkheim say about it?
E.g?
What is specialist skills and what does durkheim say about it?
Why are these specialist skills required in future?
Solidarity is the social ties that merges members of society together. Durkheim believes that solidarity is necessary for members of a society to have shared norms and values and that education provides it.
Specialist skills is the required knowledge needed for future jobs and Durkheim argues education provides this
Because economy is a complex division of labour and pupils meed the skills to fulfill their place in the workforce
What is role allocation and what does Davis and Moore say about it?
Why do they believe sometimes education system inquality is necassery?
Role allocation is when children are sifted and sorted into groups depending on their ability of skills. Davis and Moore say that education provides this and the pupils that achieve the highest qualifications get high positions
They believe that although role allocation may be inequal, it is necessary as you would need the most talented and skilled to take on the complex and important jobs. E.g it would be insufficient for someone with less skills to be a surgeon - thats dangerous
EVALUATION:
What did Wolf find?
What does Tumin say?
What does the interactionist, Wrong, say?
What does new right and neoliberist say?
High quality apprenticeships are rare and often dont even lead to high paying jobs. This means that schools dont teach specialist skills adequatley.
Argues that Davis and Moores argument is circular. Like we know a job is important because its highly rewarded and its highly rewarded because its important
The functionalist view is over socialised and they assume students always accept the school values and teachings.
They say state education fail to prepare students for work.
