Education - Theory
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- Created on: 05-03-18 09:23
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- Education - Theory
- Feminism
- Radical Feminism
- The patriarchy still works through school to reinforce traditional gender roles that disadvantage girls
- The whole 'moral panic of boys reflects a male dominated system
- Despite improvement in girls education, subject choices are gendered
- Girls aren't breaking the glass ceiling
- Traditional gender roles are reinforced in school at a disadvantage to girls
- Despite doing well girls are subjected to sexist bullying
- The patriarchy still works through school to reinforce traditional gender roles that disadvantage girls
- Liberal Feminism
- They celebrate the progress made in improving girls achievement
- They believe the 'future is female' and girls are now outperforming boys
- It's a matter of time before more women move into politics and higher paid managerial roles at work
- Marxist Feminism
- Working class women are oppressed, as education weakens women
- Due to inequality in education leads to inequality in society, this is done in several ways
- Gender sterotypes
- Gendered roles
- Gendered language
- Lack of women in the curriculum
- Lower university attendance for women
- Due to inequality in education leads to inequality in society, this is done in several ways
- Working class women are oppressed, as education weakens women
- Radical Feminism
- Marxism
- They see education working in the interests of the ruling elites
- The system performs three functions for the elite
- Reproduces class inequality
- Legitimises class inequality
- Works in the interest of capitalist employers
- The system performs three functions for the elite
- The values of school correspond to the exploitative logic of the work place
- Passive subservience
- The acceptance of hierarchy
- Motivation by external rewards
- They see education working in the interests of the ruling elites
- Functionalism
- They focus on the four positives of education
- Durkheim
- Creating social solidarity
- Learning specialist skills for work
- Parsons
- Teaching us core values
- Role allocation and meritocracy
- Durkheim
- They focus on the four positives of education
- Post- modernism
- Not appropriate to have a universal education system
- Modern education does not work for every student
- Ideas that fit with the post modernism agenda
- Home education
- Liberal forms of education (Summer hill School)
- Neolibralism and the new right
- Schools should teach subjects that prepare pupils for work - New vocational-ism
- Education created an 'education market' schools are now run like businesses as they are now competing with each other
- The state should provide a framework to ensure all schools are teaching the same thing - the national curriculum
- Feminism
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