Perpectives of Education
- Created by: PixiePopcorn
- Created on: 24-03-14 22:53
View mindmap
- Perpectives of Education
- Functionalists
- Durkheim
- Social Solidarity
- A sense of belonging within society
- Education is society in miniature
- Specialist skills
- Needed for performing your role within society
- Social Solidarity
- Parsons
- Meritocracy
- Everyone has an equal chance of achieving through hard work
- Schools prepare us for wide society
- Society judges us by universal standards
- Meritocracy
- Davis and Moore
- allocating pupils based of their abilities
- More intelligant people= most important jobs
- Role allocation is necessary to find the best
- Blau and Duncan
- Modern ecomony depends on human capital
- Meritocractic system does this best
- Modern ecomony depends on human capital
- Evaluation
- Tumin critises Davis and Moore for putting forward a circular arguement
- Equal opportunity in education does not exists
- Wrong - this view is over-socialised and we're mere puppets of society
- New Right argue state education is inadequate
- Marxists argues education transmits the ideology of the minority
- Durkheim
- Marxists
- Althusser
- 2 Elements which keep the bourgeoisie in power
- Repressive state apparatuses
- Force or threat of it
- Army, police and courts
- Force or threat of it
- Ideological state apparatuses
- Controlling people's ideas, values and beliefs
- Religion, mass media and the education system
- ISA performs 2 functions
- Education reproduces class inequality
- Education legitimates class inequality by producing ideology
- Controlling people's ideas, values and beliefs
- Repressive state apparatuses
- 2 Elements which keep the bourgeoisie in power
- Bowles and Gintis
- Education reproduces an obediant workforce
- Hidden Curriculum
- Not formally taught but throughout the everyday workings of school
- Obediance
- Accept authority figures
- Not formally taught but throughout the everyday workings of school
- Correspondece theory
- Parallels between school and workplace
- Meritocracy is a myth
- Some people start higher up the ladder
- Based on social class
- Some people start higher up the ladder
- Wiilis: Learning to labour
- Studied 12 'lads'
- Making transition between work and school
- Rebelled against school values
- Got a job through hard work
- Unable to generalise findings
- Evaluation
- Morrow and Torres criticise for taking an 'class first' approac- other factors matters
- Ignores patriarchy-feminists
- Willis study ignores females
- Post-fordism economy requires a different kind of workforce today
- Assumes pupils have no free will and accepts school values
- Willis portrays the 'lads as working class heros
- Althusser
- Functionalists
Comments
No comments have yet been made