Functionalist and New Right views of the role and purpose of education: transmission of values, training workforce
Marxist and other conflict views of the role and purpose of education: social control, ideology
Vocational education and training: the relationship between school and work:human capital, training schemes, correspondence theory.
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Differential educational achievement
Statistics on educational achievement by class, gender and ethnicity; trends over time
Social class and educational achievement: home environment; cultural capital, material deprivation; language (Bernstein); school factors, relationship between achievement by class in education and social mobility
Gender and educational achievement: feminist accounts of gender-biased schooling; the concern over boys’ ‘underachievement’ and suggested reasons; subject choice; gender identities and schooling
Ethnicity and educational achievement: patterns; reasons for variations; multicultural and anti-racist education; experience of minorities in different types of schools
The relationship between class, gender and ethnicity
The effects of changes on differential achievement by social class, gender and ethnicity.
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Relationships and processes within schools
School processes and the organisation of teaching and learning: school ethos; streaming and setting; mixed ability teaching; the curriculum; overt and hidden
the ‘ideal pupil’; labelling; self-fulfilling prophecy
School subcultures (eg as described by Willis, Mac an Ghaill) related to class, gender and ethnicity
Teachers and the teaching hierarchy; teaching styles
The curriculum, including student choice.
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The significance of educational policies
Independent schools
Selection; the tripartite system: reasons for its introduction, forms of selection, entrance exams
Comprehensivisation: reasons for its introduction, debates as to its success
Marketisation: the 1988 reforms – competition and choice; new types of schools (CTCs, academies, specialist schools, growth of faith schools)
Recent policies in relation to the curriculum, testing and exam reforms, league tables, selection, Special Educational Needs (SEN), etc
Recent policies and trends in pre-school education and higher education.
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