education Theories
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- Education and the different views.
- functionalism
- Basis
- the functions are to be teach about work and economy, to sift through people into jobs and play in secondary socialisation
- meritocracy is where successful students get the best jobs
- role allocation into jobs.
- Durkheim
- education transmits societies norms and values
- education is a miniature society - microcosm.
- teaching history has a link between individual and society which brings social solidarity
- evaluation
- explains subject importance
- Hargreaves's says school doesnt usually share norms.
- in school people are forced to conform
- prepares proletariat - marxism
- Parsons
- the education system acts as a bridge, it passes on universalistic values and social solidarity
- between particularistic values and universalistic values, has dysfunction within it
- evaluation
- ignores diversity and individual differences
- social class affects job
- sifts and sorts into a meritocratic society too
- uni = achieved status
- part = ascribed status
- Davis and Moore
- they see the education system as role allocation
- most talented = better pay
- evaluation
- unfair to those with social differences in identity e.g race, disability and social class
- ignorant
- Basis
- Marxism
- basis
- education will only be fair if the proletariat or working class revolt against it and create communist education
- provides efficient and obedient workers
- education is an ideological tool
- Althusser
- it takes a theoretical approach, it is not research based.
- working class are controlled by two types of ideological state apparatus
- repressive state is the ones who physically enforce an ideology
- ideological state is the ideas and control over the way we think
- evaluation
- just a theory
- not all working class kids fail education
- no evidence
- Bowles and Gintis
- education is a myth making machine that helps sustain ideological state apparatus and capitalism
- the correspondence principle is that education mirrors the workplace
- correspondence principle works through the hidden curriculum
- they researched american schools and concluded it reproduces the workforce
- evaluation
- american
- hidden curriculum is not proven
- not everyone accepts rules willis 1970
- Willis
- working class pupils can resist indoctrination through not working in school and forming a counterschoolculture
- counter school culture is where they actively choose to fail
- 12 wc boys, unstructured interview and observation.
- evaluation
- observations are selective and biased
- didnt look at girls
- unstructured = bad
- basis
- functionalism
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