education

• Impacts of globalisation

  • Multi-culturalism
  • Skills for global economy
  • Changes to curriculum
  • Marketisation
  • British values
  • Identity
• Multi-culturalism in the UK

  • Migration into UK led to development of multicultural curriculum (PSHE, RE, diversity days)
• Skills for global economy

  Science and technology (AI and Green Energy)
• Changes to curriculum


  • Focus on languages, history, teaching of globalisation and its effects in geography/sociology/business due to greater interconnection
• Marketisation in education

  • Free-schools, academies, chains of schools overseas, foreign students
• Teaching British values in schools

  • Reinforcing national identity, promoting social solidarity
• Increase in diversity

  Increase in acceptance as well as racism
• identity

  • uniform- reinforces gender stereotypes, class exclusion
  • subcultures- refusal of mc habitus led to wc and em groups as anti-school (Sewell, Fuller, Willis)
  • labelling-impacts self-esteem, those negatively labelled may disassociate from school
  • ethnocentric- em feel rejected=Christian holidays, school means, no cultural variation on uniform
• identity

  • nike identities- (Archer) impose symbolic violence against wc identities, schools reject these students so wc see school as 'not for them'
  • peer groups- peer groups reinforce gendered behaviour, boys called 'gay' for doing work
  • subject choice
• marxism

  • (Althusser)- ISA, RSA, education serves to reproduce and legitimate inequality
  • (Bowles and Gintis)- 'correspondence principle' parallels between school and work which operate through the 'hidden curriculum' which are the lessons taught indirectly
  • myth of meritocracy- prevents rebelling as justifying inequality and natural and inevitable
  • (Willis)- can resist indoctrination (not deterministic) but this rejection of school made them suited to capitalist system of blue-collar work
• functionalism

  • Durkheim- social solidarity= transmits society's shared culture and prepares for later life 'society in miniature', specialist skills= education teaches specialist knowledge and skills needed for later life
  • Parsons- meritocracy
  • Davis and Moore- role allocation= inequality necessary to ensure most important roles are filled by most talented