Theories of education
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- Theories of education
- Functionalism
- Education has three main funtions
- Passing on core values
- Sifts and sorts people into appropriate jobs
- teaches the skills needed by work and the economy.
- Durkheim - education passes on norms and values create social order and value consensus.
- This strengthens social solidarity.
- Parsons - schools pass on the universal value of achievement
- Education selects children into appropriate roles and it is meritocratic.
- Davis and Moore - there has to be a system of unequal rewards to motivate people to train for the top positions.
- Education has three main funtions
- Marxism
- Education has three main functions
- Prepares children for work
- Passes on the ruling class ideology
- legitimises innequality
- Bowels and Gintis - there's a correspondence between work and school.
- They also say there's a hidden curriculum.
- Althusser - education is part of the ideological state apparatus.
- Willis - subcultures prove education doesn't always produce a docile and obedient work force.
- Meritocracy is a myth that legitimises inequality.
- Education has three main functions
- Feminism
- Hidden curriculum reinforces gender differences.
- There are still gender differences in subject choice.
- Girls are now outperforming boys - but boys demand more teacher attention
- Men dominate the top positions in schools.
- The New Right
- Believe in the power of individual choice.
- The role of a school should be more like a business.
- Want to create an 'education market'
- Bartlett - cream skimming and silt shifting.
- Functionalism
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