Role of Education
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- Role of Education
- Marxist
- Louis Althusser - Reproduction of labour power theory
- 1. The formal school curriculum reproduces the skills necessary for a technically efficient labour force of workers
- 2. The informal hidden curriculum reproduces ruling class ideology necessary for a docile and submissive workplace
- Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis: Correspondence theory
- Research on 227 students in a New York high school
- Learning to accept and obey a hierarchy of authority
- Learning to find satisfaction in external rewards rather than work itself
- Learning to believe that social inequality is just and legitimate
- Neo-Marxist, Antonio Gramsci - Hegemony (1968)
- Cultural dominance has enabled the ruling class to deal with any threats to its authority without having to use force
- Dual Consciousness = beliefs only partly shaped by Capitalist ideology, as they are also influenced by their personal day-to-day experiences of society
- These sometimes contradict dominant ideology and so encourage resistance to it
- Louis Althusser - Reproduction of labour power theory
- Functionalist
- Emile Durkheim - Collective conscience
- 1. The formal school curriculum teaches the next generation the sills necessary within the specialised division of labour required in Industrial MEDCs
- 2. The hidden curriculum transmits core values in order to achieve a value consensus and a collective conscience
- Talcott Parsons - Transition theory
- Saw the classroom as a "microcosm of society"
- This miniature society provides the training ground in which children can experience society beyond the family
- This eases the transition from childhood to adulthood
- Davis & Moore - Role allocation theory (1945)
- Educational qualifications function to allocate individuals to an occupational role that suits their abilities
- People's class position is a fair reflection of their talents
- Emile Durkheim - Collective conscience
- Postmodern
- Those involved in education are aware of the issues and consciously act in ways to affect the outcome
- Conflict and tension between education producers and education consumers
- Education producers - tightly control, patrol, and police the education system
- Education consumers - individualistic,heterogeneous
- Social Action
- Labelling theory
- in order to make sense of each others actions, social actors tend to label each other
- Banding, setting, and streaming
- systems of allocating students to different teaching groups baed on their perceived ability
- Self-fulfilling prophecy theory
- people tend to act according to predictions made about their social behaviour
- Pupil sub-culture theory
- students form positive and/or negative sub-cultural groups within the educational institution
- Labelling theory
- Marxist
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