Functionalism and their view on education
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- Functionalism and their view of education
- Emilie Durkheim (1903)
- He believed that education performs two functions ...
- Creates social solidarity
- Education can provide this, for example by teaching pupils the national history.
- Leads to pupils not feeling alone, and it enables people to feel part of a group and therefore less likely to break rules.
- Education can provide this, for example by teaching pupils the national history.
- Equips pupils with the specialist skills that they will need to be successful in the work place
- Each person needs to have the necessary specialist knowledge and skills to perform their role in modern industrial economies. .
- Education can provide this, as it teaches the individual the specialist knowledge and skills to play their part in the social division of labour
- Each person needs to have the necessary specialist knowledge and skills to perform their role in modern industrial economies. .
- Creates social solidarity
- He believed that education performs two functions ...
- Talcott Parsons
- Meritocracy
- Every pupil has a fair and equal chance to be successful
- People who do achieve, is down to their own individual efforts and abilities.
- Every pupil has a fair and equal chance to be successful
- Meritocracy
- Davis and Moore role allocation
- Believes that education gives people the jobs that are best suited to them.
- It would be dangerous to give the most skilled or dangerous jobs such as being a pilot, to incapable people.
- Believes that education gives people the jobs that are best suited to them.
- Criticisms of functionalism
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- Emilie Durkheim (1903)
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