Theories of Education
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- Theories of Education
- Functionalism
- Believe that society is held together by seven components: Education, Legal System, Political system, Economy, Media, Health and Family
- Durkheim - Pass on societies culture and build social solidarity
- Education recognizes functional prerequisite by passing on the core values of society.
- This is achieved through the hidden curriculum
- Education recognizes functional prerequisite by passing on the core values of society.
- Shlutz - Human Capital
- Education prepares you for the labour force - making sure the best and most qualified people end up in better jobs
- Davis and Moore - Select and allocate people for roles in a meritocratic society and legitimizing social inequality
- In a meritocratic society, jobs are gained through hard work and skills and if you fail you only have yourself to blame because there is an equality of educational opportunity
- Parsons - Providing a bridge between particularistic values and ascribed status of the family and the universalistic values and achieved status of a contemporary advanced society
- Education is an important place for secondary socialization
- Marxism
- Bourdieu
- Key role within education is to legitimse the class inequalities and reproduce a class structure
- Althusser
- Divides the state into two 'apparatuses'
- The Repressive State Apparatus (RSA) - maintaining the ruling class through force or threat of it
- The Ideological State Apparatus - to prevent the working class rebelling against the exploitation they must try and persuade them into their beliefs
- Divides the state into two 'apparatuses'
- Wills
- Research into fifteen lads in a low class school about their attitude to education
- Bowles and Gintis
- The Correspondence Principle - norms and values that children are taught make them easier to exploit at work
- 1. Helps to produce a subservient workforce of uncritical, passive and submissive workers
- 2. Encouraging acceptance of hierarchy and authority
- 3. Motivation by external rewards
- 4. The fragment of subjects at school
- Bourdieu
- Vocationalist
- Vocational Education - They believe that having these courses has created a more skilled and flexible workforce
- New Right
- Disregarding Local Needs
- State education is unresponsive and inefficient due to the one size fits all approach that preacher uniformity and disregards local needs
- Marketisation
- Competitions in schools with empower consumers and bring greater diversity, choices and efficency
- Chubb and Moe - Education is the USA failed because they didn't create equal opportunity to those disadvantaged, failed to produce students with skills and private schools deliver better education
- Disregarding Local Needs
- Functionalism
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