Role of Education
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- Created on: 09-02-13 21:25
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- Role of education
- Functionalist Theory
- Education allocates people to their most appropriate jobs suited for their talents using examinations into their roles as adults
- Socializing young people into key vales e.g. equality of opportunity teaches the skills required by a modern industrial society
- achieved status: you can achieve what ever you want no matter your class
- Talcott Parsons argued we live in a meritocratic society where our social position is based on our ability
- The "hidden curriculum" teaches students to be obbident
- "The hidden curriculum" in school teaches students to be an obedient workforce to make the middle class rich
- "The hidden curriculum reinforces stereotypes so women wont feel equal
- "The hidden curriculum" in school teaches students to be an obedient workforce to make the middle class rich
- The most talented are allocated the most functionally important jobs in society
- Society norms and values are transmitted to pupils from one generation to another
- Education contributes to economic growth by training its pupils to be a hard working skilled, work force
- Marxist Theory
- The education system automatically works against the working class by providing the rich with qualificaitons
- The working class are exploited by those above them
- Paul Willis found that working class children opted out of education
- Working class children lack the cultural capital to do well in education
- Working class students are encouraged to conform to capitalism and accept failure
- Education socializes students to posses a false class consciousness about the world failing to see the inequalities in the capitalist soceity
- Louis Althusser 1971 believed education prepares the working class for their later exploitation in the work place
- Correspondence theory is that the classroom mirrors the work place
- Ascribed status which means your social position is determined by what you're born into
- "the myth of meritocracy" and that in fact the education system doesn't allow people to be whatever they want
- Talcott Parsons argued we live in a meritocratic society where our social position is based on our ability
- "the myth of meritocracy" and that in fact the education system doesn't allow people to be whatever they want
- Feminist Theory
- Education helps enforce a patriarchal society which helps meet the needs of men
- Many children''s books portray women as dependent on men
- A patriarchal curriculum, what is taught in school creates gender inequalities
- Men dominate particular roles in society e.g. headteachers getting these high paying roles leaving women financially dependent on men
- Women go and get lower paid jobs and end up dependent on the man
- Men dominate particular roles in society e.g. headteachers getting these high paying roles leaving women financially dependent on men
- "The hidden curriculum reinforces stereotypes so women wont feel equal
- Functionalist Theory
- Functionalist Theory
- Education allocates people to their most appropriate jobs suited for their talents using examinations into their roles as adults
- Socializing young people into key vales e.g. equality of opportunity teaches the skills required by a modern industrial society
- achieved status: you can achieve what ever you want no matter your class
- The "hidden curriculum" teaches students to be obbident
- The most talented are allocated the most functionally important jobs in society
- Society norms and values are transmitted to pupils from one generation to another
- Education contributes to economic growth by training its pupils to be a hard working skilled, work force
- Ascribed status which means your social position is determined by what you're born into
- "the myth of meritocracy" and that in fact the education system doesn't allow people to be whatever they want
- "the myth of meritocracy" and that in fact the education system doesn't allow people to be whatever they want
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