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EDUCATION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Students may reject positive labels as they think it doesn't look 'cool' in front of their friends'
      - Ways teacher give labels to students
        
        'perfect student'
        
        'chatty one'
        
        'everyone should be aspire to be like...'
        
        'disruptive one that's ruining it for everyone else'
      - When researching labelling by teachers it may be difficult because teachers could change the way they treat their children because they have favourites.
  - - - Teachers may have shown the 'spurters' that they're higher ability and can complete harder work.
      - The students who were not labelled as 'spurter' probably were made to feel less important as they're not as capable. They eventually accept this label and put less effort and permanently fall behind.
- - - - Like Durkheim, Parsons assumes that there's only one culture to be transmitted.
      - Feminists argue that the education system isn't meritocratic as gender does influence achievement and subject choice.
      - Marxists argue that the education system isn't meritocratic and social class does influence achievement.
  - - - Durkheim assumes there's a shared culture that can be transmitted through education but in a multicultural society there isn't one culture to be transmitted.
      - The education system may not teach specialised skills for the workplace.
      - Marxists would argue that the culture being transmitted is one that benefits the ruling class.
      - Feminists would argue that the culture being transmitted is patriarchal.
      - Durkheim assumes that all students will follow the values of society, which may not be the case.
- - - - Relationships in school mirror those expected in the workplace.
    - - Studied 237 New York High Schools
      - Education creates and reproduces the workforce
      - Capitalism needs hard working, disciplined and submissive workers
      - The hidden curriculum enables the 'correspondence principle'
    - - Many students reject the views of school and don't conform
      - Nowadays businesses don't want passive, unthinking workers.
      - Society needs people to fit in and education can allow social mobility
- - - - He wrote 'Learning to Labour' in 1977
        
        Willis agrees with Marxists that education serves capitalism, however he also thinks that working class students are not simply indoctrinated into ruling class values without question.
    - - Students felt superior to teachers ; no value in the academic; aimed to 'have a laugh'; do as little work as possible.
      - Students could see straight through the myth of meritocracy
- - - - Students will get appropriate difficulty of work
      - Students will be with other students of similar ability
      - Teachers will find it easier to produce lessons that meet needs
      - Encourages competition
    - - Could knock confidence
      - Teachers may focus on higher streams
      - Difficult to transfer
      - Middle class students more likely to get into higher streams
    - - Higher streams may help create pro-school subcultures where good grades are a value and hard work is a norm.
      - Lower streams may help create counter-school subcultures where defiance is a norm.