Theroies Of Education Flashcards
(14 cards)
Social Solidarity - functionalism
Durkheim
Specialist Skills - functionalism
Durkheim
- take place within highly complex division of labour
Secondary Socialisation - functionalsim
Parsons
- Meritocracy (achieve based on ability)
The Bridge - functionalism
Parsons
- transition from home to work
Sifting and sorting - functionalism
Davis and Moore
- role allocation
Social control - Marxism
Althusser
- ideological state apparatus
Specialist Skills - Marxism
Bowles and Gintis
- passive and docile
Secondary Socialisation - Marxism
Bowles and Gintis
- myth of meritocracy
Sifting and Sorting - Marxism
Bowles and Gintis
- allocated roles based on class
Key interpertivist/interactionist studies
1) Willis - anti-school subcultures
- 12 wc lads
2) Rosenthal and Jacobson - self-fulfilling prophecy
- IQ tested a class of pupils
Postmodernism
Thompson
- break free from ‘oppressive uniformity’
Why is the New Right worried about education?
Effects of state control
- inefficiency and lack of business initiative due to no incentive, not given needed skilled = dependenncy culture
One size fits all
- does not meet individual and community needs
- different areas need different skills, national curriculum not suitable for this
Lower Standards
- state-run schools not accountable to those who use them, answer to local authorities = lower standards and less qualified workforce
Key study to support New Right’s view on education
Chubb and Moe
- children from low income families who go to private school perform 5% better, because private schools answer to their consumers
- I.e. through marketisation to stay competing against rival schools
What solutions to these problems do the New Right recommend?
Impose a competition structure
- e.g. OFSTED
Make sure schools pass on shared culture
- ensure good work ethic
