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FUNCTIONALISM (40 MARXISM (40 marker) NEW RIGHT (40 marker)
marker)
Parsons: Willis: Wolf:
●​ Bridge ●​ Learning to labour ●​ Over spending
●​ Meritocracy Althusser: Young:
●​ Hidden curriculum ●​ ISA ●​ West London free
Davis and Moore: ●​ Alienation school
●​ Role allocation Bowles + Gintis:
Durkheim: ●​ Myth of meritocracy Saunders:
●​ Division of labour ●​ Correspondence ●​ vocationalism
●​ Moral education theory Chubb + Moe:
●​ Hidden curriculum ●​ Hidden curriculum ●​ Marketisation
Bourdieu:
●​ Three forms of
capitalism
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC (20 LIBERAL (20 marker) FEMINISM (20 marker)
marker)

Halsey: Illich: Spender:
●​ Equality of opportunity ●​ De-schooling ●​ male cantered
Holland: ●​ Learning webs curriculum
●​ Education and ●​ Vocationalism Heaton and Lawson:
economic growth Summerhill (Norfolk): ●​ Social reproduction
●​ Wastage of ability


NEW RIGHT EVALUATION
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES

●​ Proportion of students ●​ Don’t consider bad
leaving school with communities wont have
qualifications risen - chance to excel – people who
'absolute increase in cant move to better place
attainment' (a*) since 1979 disadvantaged
●​ More go into uni as result od ●​ 'sink schools' underperforming
KS4/5 attainment + undersubscribed school that
●​ Increase of vocational w/c children go to when cant
educations meant more move
people work ready – help ●​ Gap between wc/fsm +
get job mc/nfsm has increased
'relatively the outcomes are
worse'
●​ Vocational qualifications are
not seen as 'good' as
academic ones

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