Postmodern

• Fordism

  Capitalism system requires large number of low skilled workers putting up with repetitive work and mass production
• Globalisation and education

  • Drawn attention to issues of education in different societies
  • IT becoming more important in education
• Strengths of PT

  • Education system competes to provide young people with skills needed for global market
• PT Argue that:

  • Post-fordist system requires skilled and adaptable workforce able to use tech and transfer skills
  • Education is more diverse, responsive to needs of different groups and produces diversity
  • Education reproduces class equality as class division of labour influences society because society is more fragmented and diverse
• Weaknesses of PT

  • Fail to explain structural inequalities in education = class, gender, ethnicity
  • Fail to offer solutions for issues in education system
• Globalisation


  Increasing interconnectedness of world cultures and economies
• Difficult to study the impact of globalisation on education

  • Education systems differ widely across countries, what changes in one system may not apply to another
  • Technology causes rapid and continual change, speed is difficult to measure
• Key ideas

  1. British economy needs to be more competitive = schools in China have competitive entrance exams, making schools more respected and students earn better education
  2. Increased immigration = schools now teaching various religions
  3. Educational ideas are shared between nations, forest schools came from Scandinavian countries