The Role of the Education System
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- Education
- The roles of the Education System
- FUNCTIONALISTS say that institutions like education perform positive functions for society and its individuals
- DURKEIM: SOLIDARITY AND SKILLS
- Preparing young people for work- education equips young people with the skills needs to participate in work.
- Promotes social solidarity- education binds people together and enables them to cooperate. Provides children with a common purpose and universalistic rules/
- Davis and Moore- Role Allocation: the main function of education is role allocation, the selection and allocation of individuals for their future work roles.
- PARSONS: SOCIALISATION AND MERITOCRACY
- Secondary Socialisation- socialises individuals into the shared values of a meritocratic society.
- Meritocracy- schools are a miniature society both meritocratic. Individuals succeed or fail depending on the ability and effort. it helps to prepare them for modern society which is competitive and individualistic.
- DURKEIM: SOLIDARITY AND SKILLS
- MARXISM- Class division and exploitation.
- Social institutions reproduce class inequalities and teaching children that social exploitation is justified and acceptable.
- BOWLES AND GINTIS
- Hidden Curriculum
- Education transmits messages to students about society via rewards and cooperation.
- Education reproduces an obedient, exploitable workforce that socially accepts social inequality and capitalism.
- Meritocracy is a myth- class background determines how well a person does. Education creates a particular way of thinking- justifying inequality
- They claim that capitalism needs workers with obedient attitudes that are willing to accept hard work, low pay and authority
- The CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE- the idea that norms and values pupils learn in school will make it easy for future capitalist employers to exploit them at work. Say that "work casts a long shadow over school".
- Hidden Curriculum
- BOWLES AND GINTIS
- Social institutions reproduce class inequalities and teaching children that social exploitation is justified and acceptable.
- FUNCTIONALISTS say that institutions like education perform positive functions for society and its individuals
- The roles of the Education System
- NEW RIGHT- believe that there is too much state control over education and a culture of welfare dependency has developed.
- MARKETISATION
- Forces schools to respond to the needs of the pupils, parents and employers e.g Competition.
- State run schools have low standards due to inefficient education for all
- The state does have a limited role which is creating a framework for competition between schools and the state still ensures that schools transmits Society's shared culture through a curriculum
- State control has resulted in inefficiency, national economic decline and the lack of personal business.
- The state should provide equality and meritocracy for all
- CHUBB AND MOE- state schools competition raises standards and the national curriculum should affirm national identity
- MARKETISATION
- NEW RIGHT- believe that there is too much state control over education and a culture of welfare dependency has developed.
- The roles of the Education System
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