Durkheim

• DURKHEIM identified TWO main functions of education: creating social solidarity and teaching specialist skills.
• DURKHEIM says that Social Solidarity transmits value consensus and is an agent of secondary socialisation.
• AO2: In 2013, Gove suggested all people should teach British Values. E.g.  ‘Island of man’ of britain.
• DURKHEIM says social solidarity promotes assembly and competition.
• DURKHEIM says through Social Solidarity, education ensures that the solidarity is not lost.
• AO3: CRITICS would say that the Ethnocentric curriculum focuses on ‘Little Englandism’
• DURKHEIM believed that all should learn specialist skills to be able to work in different sectors. This resulted from the industrial revolution.
• Specialist skills ensures society keeps up with technology (quaternary sector).
• Specialist skills can be taught through schools
• Specialist skills can be taught through schools setting up core knowledge, specialist knowledge such as subject choice at A levels, and vocational skills