Role of the education system
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- Role of the education system
- Serving the needs of the economy
- teaching the knowledge and skills that future workers will need in a competitive global economy
- Social cohesion
- Schools help to reinforce the ‘glue’ or the social bonds that unite different people in society
- Facilitating social mobility
- Secondary socialisation
- Formal education
- takes place in educational institutions such as schools and universities where people learn knowledge and skills across a wide range of subjects.
- Informal education
- takes place when people develop knowledge and skills by observing what is happening around them in everyday life.
- norms,values
- Formal education
- Social control
- learn: rewards/consquences
- learn: motivation,discipline,punctuality
- Schools teach pupils to conform and accept rules and adult authority
- Negative: restricts creativity= robotic
- Negative: bullying,peer pressure=depression
- Negative: pressure of exams
- Negative: "Setting" can damage confidence
- Negative: W/C schools not as good as M/C
- Serving the needs of the economy
- Serving the needs of the economy
- teaching the knowledge and skills that future workers will need in a competitive global economy
- Schools teach pupils to conform and accept rules and adult authority
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