role of education 1
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- Created on: 11-04-13 18:42
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- ROLE OF EDUCATION 1
- FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE, share values and norms, help each other like organs in a body.
- DURKHEIM - education = social solidarity & teaches special skills
- SOCIAL SOLIDARITY "community", stablity, schools = minature societies (preparation)
- SPECIALIST SKILLS - schools teach us to co-operate, specialist knowledge
- PARSONS - MERITOCRACY "everyone given equal opportunity"
- SCHOOL = FOCAL SOCIALISING AGENCY (bridge to wide sceity)
- education = status acheived, universalistic standard. family = ascribed status, particularistic standards
- Schools help children adapt to wider soceity
- DAVIS & MORE - "ROLE ALLOCATION"
- schools = select and allocate the best people
- Education = "sifts and sorts"
- BLAU & DUNCAN
- A meritocractic system allocates the best roles for economic prosperity
- CRITICISMS
- soceity is unequal
- DENNIS WONG "puppets on a string"
- NEW RIGHT - better with no state control
- DURKHEIM - education = social solidarity & teaches special skills
- NEW RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
- BELIEFS
- meritocracy is best
- we dont need a state
- education should socialise pupils into a "national identity" (shared values)
- THEIR PROBLEMS
- "one size fits all approach"
- cosumers have no say!
- schools waste money!
- politicians enforce their view
- TWO ROLES FOR THE STATE
- FRAMEWORK - league tables, inspections
- TRANSMIT - make sure schools transmit shared culture and a national identity
- CHUBB & MOE - CONSUMER CHOICE "people using service are able to choose"
- PROBLEMS - education fails to help lower class/ethnic + religious minorities. Doesnt produce students with necessary skills. Private schools are best!
- MARKETISATION - hands of the consumer, schools compete to get money to do well
- CRITICISMS
- GEWIRTZ & BALL - marketisation fails poor
- poverty = bad results
- MARXISM - schools impose rich culture
- contradictory - national curriculum
- BELIEFS
- FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE, share values and norms, help each other like organs in a body.
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