Education Flashcards
(43 cards)
What’s the point or role of education?
Pass on core values or prepare for work
Functionalist role on education
*consensus theory *
Ain’t help explain to fit into society
Pass core values
Transfer skills
Durkheim - ‘society in miniature’
parsons - bridge between family and wider society
meritocratic rise to top
David’s and Moore - ‘principle of stratification’ inequality can motivate people for some jobs
Neoliberalism role on education
Major influences
State should not indicate how individuals dispose of property, a free market
Allow competition
New right role on education
Believe most func views
Shouldn’t control education, marketise it - bring diverse and choice
Think school has a one size fits all, poor results
This idea can ignore learning and aim for more results
Marxist point of view on education
Althussers - two apparatus
.By force, police to keep system in place
.education pushes ideas it normal
.Control people’s ideas
Bowles and Gintis
Education is a myth making machine that promotes a myth of mertocracy
POV -
Produce class inequality
While making some fear uni debt
Neg -
Deterministic, not moulded
Education can harm bourgeoisie
lad counter - culture
Don’t care for education
Feminist view on education
They agree with Marx and func, that it transmits views onto pupils
heaton and lawson
Hidden curriculum,
lib
Girls better in school
With preferences to subjects
But higher expectations for boys, more recommend for higher education
rad
Oppresses women
Sexual harassment not taken seriously
not all girls have the same experience, and many girls who do well in school will still be beaten by a man in jobs. Females time off work for kids normalised
Postmodernist view on education
It doesn’t matter as it will change soon anyway :)
Education policy - time line
1870-2023
1944
1965
1976
1988
1944, what’s the tripartite system?
Leaving age at 15, free
The 11+ exam assigning you to:
Grammar school - traditional, middle class
Secondary modern - for failures, basics
Technical - practical learning
1965, comprehensive system
equal opportunities
-allows everyone to
-lower ability
-still sort, sets
-working class still failing
What do func think of comprehensive?
Meritocracy, social roles
Social change with class altogether
Longer to develop
What do Marx think of comprehensive?
Reproduces equality
Unequal achievement
Looks like the individual when it’s the system
1988, reformed under new right ideals
Marketisation of school
Consumer choice and competition subsequently government continue this, emphasis on increasing standards.
More vocational courses
A national curriculum
More testing
Miriam David’s opinion of school marketisation
Parentocracy ( rule of parents)
Consumers have power
Raise in standards.
Critics of marketisation of school
Class inequality
Barlett - won’t take bad student more selective
Cream skimming - won’t take lower class kids
What’s slit-stiffing
Avoid talking pupils who are more likely to get poorer results
The 4 policy of marketisation of school
League tables
National curriculum
Ofsted
Rule of parents
1976, vocational education
Skills needed to work
Youth training schemes
NVQ- practical qualifications
The new deal, if on benefits had to attend courses
Criticism of vocational capital
Sims for good work discipline no skills
Cheap labour
Arnt regarded as highly as academic qualifications
To force women into traditional jobs
1997-2010, new labour and third way ideas
Continued marketisation of schools, allowed schools to specialise in subjects
Made education more privatised contracts for improving reading or writing
What’s are the interventionist policies
Reducing class sizes
Introduced a literacy hour
Trying to increase number to uni
What vocational ideas did new labour add?
A-levels
What policies aimed to promote gender equality
Girls
Equal entitlement to all pupils - increase in girls achievement
Taking initiatives to promote subjects to girls they normally wouldn’t take
Boys
Grants to primary schools to hold extra writing classes for boys to help SATs
Other extra programs to promote improvement in boys
What new labour polices aimed to reduce class inequality
Sure start - two years free childcare and early education for 3-4 year olds
education maintenance allowance- 30 per week for children who stayed after 16, only for very poor families
Education action zones - tracks inequality by area
free school meals
academic program - for schools In disadvantaged areas, sponsors to help improve them
