Role of education functionalism & new right
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- Created on: 10-04-21 13:50
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- The role of education functionalism & new right
- functionalist perspective
- Durkheim: solidarity and skills - education promotes two key skills
- Social solidarity
- by transmitting shared N&V. education binds people together
- prepares young people for work
- Social solidarity
- Parsons: socialisation and meritocracy
- argues school is the focal socialising agency of modern society
- secondary socialisation
- meritocracy
- individual achievement
- equal opportunity
- Davis and Moore: role allocation
- human capital theory
- Durkheim: solidarity and skills - education promotes two key skills
- Evaluation of the functionalist perspective
- Marxists argue that the values transmitted by education is not societies shared values & instead is those of the ruling class
- education isn't meritocratic because of non equal opportunities
- Hargreaves argues schools place more value on competition than developing a sense of social solidarity
- interactionists argue that the functionalist view of socialisation is too deterministic. not all students passively accept school's values.
- a persons ascribed characteristics (class, gender etc) are more important in determining their income later in life than their achievement in school
- Neoliberalism and New Right perspective
- Market vs the state
- one size fits all - the state cant meet people's needs.
- Lower standards- state-run schools aren't accountable to those who use them so aren't efficient
- the solution = marketisation
- NR argues creating an 'education market' forces schools to respond to the needs of those who use them
- Chubb & Moe: their data suggests pupils from low-income families do about 5% better in private schools. Suggests education isn't meritocratic
- state education has failed to create equal opportunity because it does not have to respond to pupil's needs,
- Neoliberalism = the state should not run education. A free-market economy encourages competition and drives up standards
- has the state got any role in education?
- NR do still see a limited role for the state
- State should create the framework for competition between schools (eg. publishing league tables)
- state still has to ensure that schools transmit society's shared culture through a curriculum that emphasises a shared national identity
- Market vs the state
- Evaluation of the New Right
- Although school standards - as measured by exam results - seem to have risen, there are other possible reasons for this improvement apart from the introduction of a market.
- Critics argue that low standards in some state schools are the result of inadequate funding rather than state control of education
- Gewritz argues that competition between schools benefits the middle class, who can get their children into more desirable schools
- marxists argue that education imposes the culture of a ruling class, not a shared culture or 'national identity' as the NR argue
- functionalist perspective
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