Education
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- Created on: 06-01-17 14:31
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- Education
- Perspectives
- Marxist
- Althusser
- Ideological state apparatus
- Repressive state apparatus e.g. police, courts, army. They control the workers through the threat of force.
- Ideological state apparatus e.g. religion, mass media, education. These control people’s minds/ideas.
- Education reproduces class inequality.
- Education legitimises class inequality
- Ideological state apparatus
- Althusser
- Functionalists
- Durkheim
- Social solidarity - Education brings us together by giving us a sense of community, whilst teaching us societies culture.
- "Society as a miniature"
- Specialist skills
- Education provides us with the knowledge and skills we need for each person to perform their role in society.
- Social solidarity - Education brings us together by giving us a sense of community, whilst teaching us societies culture.
- Parsons
- Meritocracy
- Agrees with Durkheim but develops his ideas. In a family a child's role is ascribed whereas in education it is based on merits. The harder you work the more you achieve.
- Meritocracy
- Davis and moore
- Role allocation
- Schools select and allocate children to their role in life. Inequality is necessary and competition is good. Therefore the most important roles go to the most talented
- Role allocation
- Durkheim
- The new right
- They believe in a free market and that marketisation is good.
- SO more marketisation, more competition = more prosperous economy
- They believe that some people are more talented than others.
- Want education to be meritocratic and based in competition
- Education should socialise children into competition and instil a sense of national identity.
- Want education to be meritocratic and based in competition
- Current system is failing, because it’s run by the state (they want free schools and more academies). “One size fits all” is wrong - need more locally run schools.
- They believe in a free market and that marketisation is good.
- Marxist
- External
- Material
- Financial
- Bull
- Poor equipment and uniform can lead to bullying which causes lower levels of achievement
- - School isn't free e.g school inform, travel and equipment
- Housing - This can affect achievement e.g. no space to study, changing schools and or disturbed sleeping
- HOWARD
- poor homes = fewer vitamins = illness.
- HOWARD
- Diet and health
- HOWARD
- poor homes = fewer vitamins = illness.
- WILKINSON
- argues poor food leads to behavioural problems
- HOWARD
- Bull
- FEINSTEIN
- M/C parents buy educational books and toys
- M/C parents provide extras e.g. tutors
- M/C parents have a better out look on education and see the importance of the process
- Financial
- Cultural
- Intellectual development
- W/C homes lack educational toys and
- Douglas
- W/C students achieve lower because their parents do not read to them
- Bernstein
- and young ; M/C mums choose toys to aid with intellectual development
- Douglas
- Language
- - restricted and elaborated code. M/C speech is more varied therefore M/C students have an advantage.
- Bernstein
- and young ; M/C mums choose toys to aid with intellectual development
- Bernstein
- - restricted and elaborated code. M/C speech is more varied therefore M/C students have an advantage.
- Attitudes and values
- DOUGLAS
- W/C parents place less emphasis on education.
- M/C parents have a better out look on education and see the importance of the process
- Sugarman -
- W/C values - Fatalism - Present time orientation - immediate gratification- Collectivism
- DOUGLAS
- W/C homes lack educational toys and
- Intellectual development
- Material
- Factors affecting education
- Internal
- Labelling
- BECKER
- interviewed 60 teachers in Chicago asked them to judge students based on work conduct and appearance. M/C students seen as ideal.
- RIST teachers uses background to put students into groups - tigers, cardinals and clowns.
- KEDDIE
- examined comprehensive schools, lower streams taught differently to higher streams. They were not taught how to analyse. Lower streams had W/C students.
- BECKER
- Cultural deprivation
- working class subcultures
- Immediate gratification- Want rewards now !
- Fatalism - The mindset that "What will be will be"
- Collectivism - achieving the same as part of a group.
- Criticism
- working class subcultures
- Labelling
- Internal
- Perspectives
- Sugarman
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