Perpectives in education
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- Perpectives in Education
- Functionalism - Macro/Top Down - Consensus - Structural
- Durkheim : believed in value consensus ( shared norms of society). Education creates this and social solidarity - essential because it transfers the value consensus. It prepares us for wider society - school and work are similar. Education teaches specialised knowledge and skills for social division of labour
- Parsons : Believes in meritocracy. status can be achieved (univertistic standards) or ascribed (particularistic). School acts as a bridge between family and wider society - secondary socialisation.education teaches us to work in order to gain status which is the same as work.
- Davis and Moore : School has a function of allocating pupils to their future roles - based on ability and aptitudes. Focus on education and social inequality.
- Inequality is necessary - so important roles are filled by the most talented and education is part of giving ground of needed ability. - Most able gain highest qualifications and so get most rewards and important jobs.
- Key Words: D+M - role allocation, sifts and sorts, allocation principle. Durkheim - social solidarity, specialist skills and value consensus. Parsons - meritocracy, bridging the gap and universalists and particularistic
- New Right: influenced politics - new labour and conservative
- Chubb and Moe - they believe that the state is failing education system and so its not meeting the economies needs as its not producing the necessary workforce.
- As a result we need to fix this by increasing competition, increasing marketisation - league tables, national curriculum and OFSTED
- NeoLiberals - economic doctrine has an influence on educational policies - state should not provide services like education, it should not dictate to people and so they should increase competition and marketisation.
- Two Roles for the state: impose framework - OFSTED. School transmit share culture
- Chubb and Moe - they believe that the state is failing education system and so its not meeting the economies needs as its not producing the necessary workforce.
- Marxism - Macro/Top Down - Conflict - Structural
- Willis - researched subcultures within education, he studies counter culture
- Althusser - believed in RSA and ISA - he said education is an Ideological Status Apparatus as it maintains the capitalists ideas - controls ideas and beliefs
- It reproduces and legitamises and reproduces classs inequality by creating a false class consciousness
- Bowles and Gintits - capitalism needs a workforce with behaviour and attitudes to match their roles - needs people to be alienated and exploited to accept hard work and low pay. Education helps to create this obedient workforce and accept inequality
- It does this through the hidden curriculum, myth of meritocracy and correspondence principle
- Key Words : Althusser - Ideological Status Apparatus, False class concosiousness. B + G - correspondence principle, hidden curriculum, myth of meritocracy
- Functionalism - Macro/Top Down - Consensus - Structural
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