Daniels - Role and Function of Education

Question 1

functionalist theory of education: Emilie Durkheim 1903

Answer 1

-social solidarity (school conveys values morals + beliefs
-specialist skills ( literacy+numeracy)

Question 2

Tallcot parsons 1961

Answer 2

-school is the bridge from family to wider society (school is an agent for secondary socialisation)
-For Parsons, schools, like wider society, are based on meritocratic principles

Question 3

Davis and Moore 1945

Answer 3

• role allocation ( sift and sort from exam +qualifications )
  -system Is meritocratic (allocates the most able to the most important and highly rewarded social roles)

Question 4

Marxist theory of education: Louis Althusser 1970

Answer 4

-school is ideological state apparatus (which use beliefs and ideas as a means of control)
-school achieves the false consciousness (keeping everything in order, obedient workforce)

Question 5

Bowles and Gintis 1976

Answer 5

-hidden curriculum ( acts as a mechanism by which we get obedient workers which is essential for capitalism, as school corresponds with work)
-school softens you up for working world ( teacher= boss/punctual )

Question 6

Liberal feminism

Answer 6

there has been a steady improvement in girls experience of school and girls achievement

Question 7

radical feminism

Answer 7

believe that one of the primary roles of education is to maintain gender inequality
- gendered roles= textbooks present traditional gendered roles ( women as housewives)

Question 8

the new right

Answer 8

-schools should be centred around competition and choice, mainly done through marketisation

Question 9

Chubb and Moe

Answer 9

-private schools deliver higher quality education because they are answerable to paying consumers (parents)
-parents cannot do anything about failings schools when controlled by state