Education

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Education

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How we acquire knowledge, skills and understanding

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Formal education

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Learning particular subjects in organised institutions

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Informal education

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Learning by observing what goes on around us, through experience of life

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Function

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Roles that benefit society

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Social control

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Teach students to accept rules and authority expected by society

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Secondary socialisation

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School play a role in teaching the values and norms of informal rules of society to each new generations. Continuation of primary socialisation

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Serving the needs of the economy

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Teach the skills and knowledge required in a modern, technical and industrial economy. Teach what they need for work

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Social mobility

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Provide students with the opportunity to achieve recognised qualifications enabling students to achieve higher positions in society

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Social cohesion

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Norms and values taught in schools reflect the norms and values of the culture and give people an identity

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Meritocracy

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Education system gives everyone an equal chance, which they achieve on the basis of merit

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De-schooling

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Schools train children to become mindless consumers and workers, instead of independent, intelligent thinkers

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Educational reform act 1988

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Introduced the national curriculum

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Ofsted

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Inspecting schools to find out how well they were teaching students and how much pupils were learning

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Pupil progress

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See if students have made progress of not

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League tables

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Lists produced by government showing each schools position comparison to other schools depending on exam performance

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Independent schools

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Pupils who attend must pay. Also known as private schools. Have their own curriculum

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State funded comprehensive

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All students are able to attend regardless or background and ability. Access to the same level and quality of education

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Academies

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Own curriculum, change lengths of terms and school days, set their own pay for staff. Otherwise like state funded schools

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Faith schools

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Particular emphasis on teaching religious beliefs. Very selective

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Special schools

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Schools for kids with sen. learn appropriate schools with specialist teachers

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Free schools

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Decide admission arrangements, own curriculum, length of school days. Independent school that receive state funding

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Selective schools

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Select children by a certain criteria.

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Formal curriculum

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What pupils learn in their timetabled lessons

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Hidden curriculum

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Teaching students values, attitudes and behaviour indirectly taught not in their lessons

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Structure of schools

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Schools are structured as a hierarchy. Headteacher at the top and students at the bottom

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Social control

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Hidden curriculum consists of rules, regulations and respect for authority.

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Achievement and competition

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Schools reward individual achievement. Can be the merit system and encourage students to work harder

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Routine

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Everything is at a certain time. Good punctuality and attendance are thought through school routines

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Dress code

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Expected to dress suitable and respectably. Reflects expectations in the workplace.

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Gender role allocation

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Treating girls different to boys. Expect them to take certain subject of act a certain way.

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Labelling

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Students are constantly being assessed and classified. E.g, being labelled as bright or lazy

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Self-fulfilling prophesy

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Hear labels about themselves and start to believe that they are true. Then act as if they are true.

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Setting

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Students are grouped in classes according to their ability in those subjects.

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Streaming

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Pupils are divided according to their supposed ability. They will remain in the same group for all their subjects.

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Material deprivation

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Lack of money meaning a lack of books and computers. Can make it difficult to study at home.

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Parents’ attitude

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How much interest and encouragement parents show in their child’s education effects educational success.

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Speech patterns

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Middle-class kids can have their writing and speaking skills developed at an earlier age than working-class children as they can afford the toys to help.

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Cultural deprivation

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Norms and values of middle-class and working-class children differ. So how much education is valued is different.

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Anti-school subculture

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Not cooperating with school and authority

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1944 education act (butler act)

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introduced: tripartite system, free compulsory state education, eleven plus exams

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tripartite system

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secondary technical schools for those with talent of mechanical, engineering or scientific areas. Grammar schools for academic students. Secondary modern schools for those not suited for the other two.

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1965 Comprehensive education

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all students in a local education authority would attend the same school. Abolished the tripartite system and putting students into sets/streams