Theories of education
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- theories and education
- functionalist
- Parsons
- School as a unit of secondary socialisation
- School was a bridge between home and the work placw
- Home had particularistic values
- Workplace had universalistic values
- The education system is meritocratic; everyone has equal opportunities
- Durkheim
- School encouraged social solidarity and value consensus
- School acted as a society in miniature and prepares you for life in the real world
- School provides a skilled workforce with a diverse range of skills
- Davis and Moore
- School was "a proving ground for ability... a selective agency for placing people according to their ability" - Role allocation
- school sorts and sifts people into roles suitable for their ability
- Schultz
- Human capital - peoples knowledge and skill. He argued that higher spending developed this
- Therefore, schools invested in human capital
- Human capital - peoples knowledge and skill. He argued that higher spending developed this
- Parsons
- Marxist
- Althusser
- The school is an Ideological state apparatus because students are rewarded for working hard
- He argued that capitalism is maintained by carefully manipulating people into accepting an unfair system so they find it harder to challenge it
- The school is an Ideological state apparatus because students are rewarded for working hard
- Bowles and Gintis
- The correspondence theory
- the relationship between students and teachers correspond with that of workers and employers
- Both the formal and hidden curriculum help to reproduce existing class inequalities in the new generation.
- Teaching students to become reliant on the teachers so they don't think for themselves creates a docile workforce
- "Mug and Jug" Teaching
- Over-teaching creates a surplus of skills creates competition for work in the working-class, allowing capitalists to offer lower wages
- The correspondence theory
- Althusser
- Neo-Marxist
- Paul Willis
- Studied a group of working-class boys and their anti-school sub-culture
- Studied how the working-class children end up doing working-class jobs
- Rikowski
- Marketization has led to schools becoming a commodity to be bought and sold
- schools are made to compete against each other
- schools are now driven by profit instead of educating which means the quality of education has decreased
- School functions are sub-contracted to private industries, the schools profit from running the functions for less than the contracted price
- Marketization has led to schools becoming a commodity to be bought and sold
- Bourdieu
- Social, economic and cultural capital
- Paul Willis
- Social Democratic
- associated with educational policies pre 1979, they believe in the welfare state and that the government should look out for the weakest members of society by using tax-and-spent policies.
- 1944 education act: free secondary school for all, maintenance grants, higher education for all that are qualified
- Gerwitz
- privileged/ skilled choosers, semi-skilled choosers, and disconnected choosers
- Ball
- saw there was a shift after the 1988 reform act from student needs to student performance which creates winners and loosers
- associated with educational policies pre 1979, they believe in the welfare state and that the government should look out for the weakest members of society by using tax-and-spent policies.
- New-right/ neoliberal
- believe in privitization and believe that educational quality is decreasing because it is run by the state
- Take on a one size fits all approach - they were involved with creating the 1988 education reform act as they are a political party
- Chubb and Moe
- Believe there should be a free market for education that provides parents and local communities with choice - schools should be independently managed
- believe in privitization and believe that educational quality is decreasing because it is run by the state
- functionalist
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