Theories of education
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- Theories of education
- Marxism
- Is a means of social control, encouraging the conformity of young people
- Althusser
- The reproduction of necessary technical skills
- Reproduction of RC ideology and accepting this - false class consiousness
- RC try to win over the WC through ideological state apparatuses such as the education system (main one in Western society)
- Bourdieu
- Used to legitimize social class inequalities - each social class has their own social framework called a habitus
- People who come from MC backgrounds have more access to the culture of the dominant class - cultural capita
- Illich and Freire
- Schools are repressive institutions promoting conformity - rewards
- Learners are conditioned to accept domination and subordination
- Hegemonic control
- Bowles and Gintis
- Workforce reproduced within school
- 'The long shadow of work' - influence over schools such as the HC which replicates workplaces
- Rejects that inequality comes from fair comp as SC, ethnicity and gender play a key part in success or failure
- Feminism
- The theory that women are at a disadvantage and their interests are devalued in the patriarchal society
- Radical feminist
- Gender inequalities and oppression are an outcome of patriarchy
- Oakley
- Greer
- Liberal feminist
- Tuckman
- Equality through legal means, how society shapes roles
- Marxist feminist
- Barrett
- Women are more exploited by capitalism than men
- New Right
- Political philosophy - conservative governments 1979-1997
- Competition of the free market
- Schools should be run like businesses
- Theory of Marketization
- Individual freedom - choose where they go to school and what they do
- Reduced spending by the state - more self-reliant than before
- Emphasises the traditional institutions and values
- critcises lone parent families
- Chubb and Moe
- Ed run by state and local authorities don't meet aims and imposes a single school type
- Competition of the free market
- Schools should be run like businesses
- Theory of Marketization
- Functionalism
- The individual is less important the society - macro approach
- People are the product of all the social influences around them: parents, religion, education system
- Durkheim
- Social Solidarity - conscience collective
- Specialistic skills + division of labour
- Society in miniature - microcosm
- Davis and Moore
- Human Capital
- Role allocation - Different social positions require different talents
- Meritocracy
- Parsons
- Achieved status - work hard = good grades
- Particularistic standards - social rules (Vs and Ns)
- Ascribed status
- Parsons
- Parsons
- Achieved status - work hard = good grades
- Particularistic standards - social rules (Vs and Ns)
- Ascribed status
- Durkheim and Parson's 4 functions of education
- 2. Bridge between particularistic values and ascribed status (fam) + universalistic values and achieved status (soc)
- 3. Developing human capital (trained and qualified labour force) - Shultz (1971) and Human Capital
- 4. Allocating roles in a meritocratic society - Davis and Moore (1967), sifting for different job levels, equality of oppourtunity
- Marxism
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