The Role Of Education

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functionalist view on the role of education

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Take a consensus view of the role of education. they see it as a crucial part of the socialisation process, transmitting and reinforcing societies norms and values, preparing young people for adult roles and selecting young people in terms of abilities for jobs.

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Emile Durkheim

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said education performed 2 functions; creating social solidarity by transmitting societies norms and values from one society to the next

Teaching specialist skills: the education system teaches individuals the specialist knowledge they need to play they part in the social division of labour

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Parsons

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school is the 'focal socialising agency' in modern society, a bridge between the family and wider society. sees school as preparing us to move from the family to wider society because school and society are both based on meritocratic principles. in a meritocracy everyone is given an equal opportunity, individuals achieve rewards through their own effort and ability

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Davis and Moore

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Role allocation: education is a device for selection and role allocation. they argue that inequality is necessary to ensure that the most important roles in society are filled by the most talented people. Education acts as a proving ground for ability.

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Marxists

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Take a class conflict approach, see education as serving the needs of capitalism. it's a way the ruling class broadcast their ideology and get people to accept it.

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Althusser

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sees education as an ideological state apparatus that reproduces and legitimises class inequality by ensuring working class students end up in working class jobs. Education teaches generations things they will need in work.

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Bowles and Gintis

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The hidden curriculum

The role of the education system is to reproduce an obedient workforce that will accept inequality as inevitable. schools reward the personality traits that make for a submissive worker.

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Paul willis

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working class pupils are slotted into and learn to accept jobs that are poorly paid and alienating. he did a study of 12 working class boys and found that they lived up to their labels of being cheeky and had an anti school attitude which would mean they were destined for unskilled work that capitalism needs someone to perform.

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Feminism

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feminists believe that women are being oppressed by a male dominated society both in education and also in later life. they argue that the curriculum is more based around traditionally male-dominated subjects which sets up men more than women for further education or better work opportunities.

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Heaton and Lawson

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Believe that schools seemed to show or have textbooks with modern family culture and where children are taught from an wary age that males are dominant within the family. many subjects are aimed at certain genders e.g. food tech aimed at females

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Liberal feminism

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they believe changes in equal opportunities and education policies e.g. the national curriculum will end patriarchy. there has been progress, women are becoming more condiment in education. schools such teach equality and changes in the law.

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Radical feminism

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Radical fems say that patriarchy will only end when women are freed from physical and emotional violence inflicted b men in the class room and play ground.

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Multicultural feminism

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say that people must challenge the system based on their individual needs. believe that the traditional schools of feminist thought have been created by middle class white women and they didn't recognise that women of colour may also be oppressed based on racial inequalities.

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New Right

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Take a conservative political view of the role of education similar to functionalism in that some people are more naturally talented, education is meritocratic and education should socialise people but say the education system isn't working properly because it's run by he state and should instead be organised on market principles.

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Chubb and Moe

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Education hasn't served minority groups well and is inefficient because it fails to provide students with the right skills for the workplace. therefore we should create a market place where schools are funded and parents have more choice and there is competition.

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Murray

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Thinks that the underclass are bad for the education system and that the parents of children on benefits have failed in the education system themselves and so are a bad role model for their children.

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Post modernism

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Take a diversity approach. They argue that class is no longer important - society has become more diverse and fragmented and the economy has become post fordist. Education reflects these changes and is becoming more diverse and flexible

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Usher and Edwards

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Education helped spread rational scientific belief so is involved with the teaching of meta narratives. But there is not a one size fits all approach. we should move towards an individual what each person is good at approach.