Theroists beliefs on the education system
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- Created on: 29-03-16 11:13
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- Theorist beliefs on the education system
- Functionalism (IGNORES DIVERSITY & REBELLION)
- Teaches shared norms and values that are beneficial to society
- Helps society to function smoothly
- Education helps intergrate members into society (A SENSE OF COMMUNITY)
- Helps society to function smoothly
- DURKHEIM
- Perpetuates a sense of belonging and commitment to wider society
- Shared belief in the cooperation of society
- Team games = creates a senseof pride in a pupils school helps pass on these values
- PARSONS
- Induvidual achievement should be based on merit
- Meritocracy
- Induvidual competition = positive makes the maximum contribution to society
- Exam system = positive
- Induvidual achievement should be based on merit
- Teaches shared norms and values that are beneficial to society
- Marxism (INGORES REBELLION & CONFLICT WITHIN SCHOOLS)
- Perpetuates capitalism
- Teachers pupils obidience and are based on the ideas of hierachy
- Creates false consciousness
- Benefits the rulling class
- Helps to rich stay rich and the poor stay poor
- Taught to be motivated by external rewards e.g. pay packet or exam success
- Teachers pupils obidience and are based on the ideas of hierachy
- Bowles and Gintis
- Hidden curriculum = produces a docile, easily manipulated and exploitabke work force
- Perpetuates capitalism
- New right
- Feminism (OUTDATED AS WOMEN DO BETTER)
- Education is a patriarchal promotaion that ensure the dominance of men in society
- Michelle Stanworth
- Males are more iprtant than females
- Boys careers are more important than girls careers
- Senior positions in educatin are help by men therefore reinforcing the message that males ARE and SHOULD be dominant
- Functionalism (IGNORES DIVERSITY & REBELLION)
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