1)ACTION THEORIES - interactionism, interpretivism and postmodernism in education

Question 1

(IIP) Is interactionism and interpretivism micro or macro

Answer 1

micro view of education - understanding what happens within schools and meaning of behaviour

Question 2

(IIP) Difference between interactionism and interpretivism

Answer 2

Interactionists want to understand how people interact with each other, while interpretivism is an approach to doing this.

Question 3

(IIP) What has interactionism influenced?

Answer 3

Labelling Theory

Question 4

(IIP) Key interpretivist/interactionist studies

Answer 4

Willis - Anti-School Subcultures
Rosenthal and Jacobson - Self - Fulfilling Prophecy

Question 5

(IIP) How has education changed to reflect postmodern society? (4 answers)

Answer 5

It’s diverse and individualised

controlled locally by communities

flexible (online)

lifelong learning and learner is active

Question 6

(IIP) Postmodern view of society

Answer 6

barriers like class, gender and ethnicity no longer exist.

Question 7

(IIP) Postmodern view of education

Answer 7

they don’t accept there is a single definitive curriculum (reject idea of single truth) there is now diversity e.g faith and specialist schools

Question 8

(IIP) Postmodernist education sociologist

Answer 8

Thompson - in a PM society schools break free from the oppressive uniformity of the old centralised ‘one size fits all’ system.
Should be customised - e.g in faith schools, specialist schools