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Views On Education - Coggle Diagram

- - - - marketisation and competition between schools benefits some classes more than others, due to knowledge about league tables and the ability to move into the catchment zone of better schools
- - - - Durkheim
        
        Social Solidarity
        
        results in valued consensus
        
        achieved through learning the same curriculum. E.g. pledging allegiance to the flag
        
        argues that school is one of the few institutions which can perform this function, in advanced industrial societies.
        
        Teaching specialist skills for work
        
        schools provide diversity of qualifications
        
        gradually become more specialised
        
        Industrial economies require a complex division of labour
      - Parsons/Davis and Moore
        
        Role allocation and Meritocracy
        
        education provides a way of allocating people to appropriate job roles
        
        through tiered qualifications
        
        education is meritocratic, provides an equal opportunity for all to achieve qualifications
        
        a combination of ability and effort, determine who gets the best qualifications and then the best jobs
        
        industrial societies are hierarchical
        
        some jobs are more important and pay more. e.g. doctors
        
        other jobs less important and paid less. hairdressers.
      - Parsons
        
        bridge between home and school
        
        at school pupils are judged by universalistic standards (same standards applied equally to all)
        
        At home, pupils are judged by particularistic standards (different standards)
    - - Secondary Socialisation
  - - - Marxism would argue that the education system is not meritocratic
        For example: class background influences educational achievement. Private education.
        
        ideological as it reflects the views of the powerful
      - Interactionists would argue that functionalists ignore the negative experiences that some children have at school
        e.g. bullying, negative teacher labelling.
      - postmodernists: education kills creativity, through teaching for a test rather than teaching for the love of learning.
    - - Education has become more work focused. e.g. vocational qualifications and apprenticeships
      - Education is more meritocratic now than it used to be. e.g. 11 plus exam: late bloomers
      - those with degrees, earn 85% more than those without degrees
      - schools still try to create solidarity. e.g. team sports, citizen ship lessons and assemblies
- - - - the correspondence principle
    - - ideological state apparatus
    - - learning to labour