Education - Perspectives

Bowles and Gintis suggest:

• Believe education has a beneficial role for the powerful people in our society and brainwashing people to follow capitalists norms and values.
• It is not meritocratic
• Does not provide equal opportunities for everyone
• Provides a hidden curriculum

Parsons suggests:

• Educational system provides equal opportunities.
• Education places students into groups based on their abilities -streaming and setting
• Meritocracy - a persons social position is based on their abilities and talents not their social background.

• Education benefits men, ensuring that males remain more powerful in society by teaching patriarchal norms and values, such as women's role as carers and restricting access to certain subjects. e.g gender socialisation

Giddens said:

• Need new vocational schools
• Curriculum needs to change as society is changing

• Teachers attitudes
• Curriculum - Arguably Caters for one gender more than the other
• Equal pay act - 1970

• Family type
• Ethnocentric curriculum

• Marketisation
• Teacher Labelling
• Subcultures
• Ethnocentric curriculum

• Parental expectations
• Cultural capital
• Gender socialisation

• Academies 2001
• Free Schools 2010