Functionalist view of Education
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- Created on: 09-04-19 10:38
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- Functionalism view on education
- Intro/context
- Tend to emphasise the positives of education
- Meritocracy
- Secondary socialisation
- Tend to emphasise the positives of education
- Role allocation and meritocracy
- Education provides an equal opportunity for all to achieve good qualifications
- Combination of ability and effort determine who gets the best qualifications and then the ebst jobs
- Provides a way of allocating people to appropriate job roles- through teired qualifications
- Industrial societies are hierarchal
- Some jobs are more important and pay more
- e.g doctors
- Other jobs less important and pay less
- E.g hairdressers
- Some jobs are more important and pay more
- Education provides an equal opportunity for all to achieve good qualifications
- Social solidarity
- Durkheim
- Where the individual feels themselves to be part of the coummunity and where people work together towards shared goals
- School is one of the few insitutions which can perform this function in advanced, industrial
- Achieved through learning the same curriculum- history,english
- Teaching specialist skills for work
- Schools provide a diversity of qualifications which gradually become more specialised
- Industrial economies require a complex division of labour, many jobs are highly skilled
- Bridge between home and school
- At home- pupils are judged by particularistic standards
- Different standards
- Parsons
- At school- pupils are judged by universalistic standards
- The same standards, applied equally to all
- At home- pupils are judged by particularistic standards
- Positive evaluations
- Schools try to create solidarity
- Team sports/ assemblies/ citizenship lessons
- Education is more meritocratic now than in the 19th century
- Education has become more work focused with more vocational qualifications and apprenticeships
- Schools try to create solidarity
- Criticisms
- Marxism- the edcuation system is not meritocratic
- Class background influences educational achievement, especially with private education
- Interactionism- Functionalism ignores the negative experiences some students have in school
- e.g bullying/ teacher labelling
- Postmodernists- education kills creativity- through teaching to the test
- It is ideological- it relfects the views of the poewerful, who gnerally tend to benefit from education
- Marxism- the edcuation system is not meritocratic
- Intro/context
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