Perspectives on Education (Topic 1)
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- Education
- Functionalism
- Important agency for socialisation. Creates a value consensus, social harmony and social cohesion. Prepares children for a rapidly changing society.
- Functions of Education:
- 1) Passing on society's culture and building social solidarity.
- 2) Providing a bridge between the family and society.
- 3) Developing human capital - a trained and qualified labour force.
- 4) Allocating roles in a meritocratic society and legitimising inequality.
- New Right
- Education should be concerned with training a work force, it should socialize young people into collective values and ensure a stable society.
- Chubb and Moe argue there should be a free market in education. They believe in the marketisation of education.
- Marxist
- Education is a means of social control, encouraging conformity. The education system reproduces existing social class inequalities
- Althusser: education as an ideological state apparatus.
- Main role of education in a capitalist society is the reproduction of an efficient and obedient labour force.
- THE REPRODUCTION OF NECESSARY TECHNICAL SKILLS
- THE REPRODUCTION OF RULING CLASS IDEOLOGY AND THE FALSE CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS.
- To prevent working class rebellion he ruling class must persuade them through a number of ideological state apparatuses.
- Main role of education in a capitalist society is the reproduction of an efficient and obedient labour force.
- Bordeiu and the reproduction of class inequaliies.
- He regards the key role of education as justifying class inequality and reproducing class structure.
- Each social class contains its own set of ideas and culture he calls a HABITUS; this is picked up through the socialization in the family.
- Willis.
- 12 working class 'lads' study in the 70s . They developed an anti-school subculture. They attached little value to education and wanted to get into a labour job as soon as possible.
- His research suggests that schools are not directly preparing this labour force, they actively reject higher class values and jobs to enter semi-skilled or unskilled work.
- Vocational Education and Human Capital
- Functionalists and New Right believe this benefits the economy.
- Marxists see this as a second-rate education for those from w/c class backgrounds.
- Focus on improving he quality of basic-skills and ending status division between academic and vocational qualifications.
- Measures to achieve this:
- Work experience programmes for students.
- Post-16 ed and training.
- Stronger emphasis on key skills
- Work experience is sign as involving little development in skills. Often seen as having lower status and have stigma attached to them. It is under-valued and may never lead to high careers.
- Functionalists and New Right believe this benefits the economy.
- Functionalism
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