January 04, 2019 Date: 20/9/18 Classroom expecta.ons Arrive on .me Coat off Bags off desks Planner on desk Equipment on desk Start work promptly Complete work to the best of your ability Title: The role and purpose of Education Which of the following quotes do you identify with the most? Why? What do you think about education? Why?
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January 04, 2019
Date: 20/9/18
Classroom expecta.ons
Arrive on .me
Coat off
Bags off desks
Planner on desk
Equipment on desk
Start work promptly
Complete work to the best of your ability
Title: The role and purpose of Education
Which of the following quotes do you identify with the most? Why?
What do you think about education? Why?
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Reasoning Focus on key words
Date: 27/9/17
To identify the role of education according to Functionalist Sociologists.
To outline the effects of compulsory education
To consider whether we live in a meritocratic society
Title: The role and purpose of Education
Social ControlSecondary SocialisationSocial Cohesion
Meritocracy
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Title: The role and purpose of Education
What do these images tell us about the roles and purpose of education?
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Task:In pairs make a list of as many different functions of education as you can. Which do you think are the most important? Why?
- Social cohesion
- Learning shared norms and values
- Get qualifications - to get a good job
- Develop interests/ develop and make progress
- Role allocation - determines your future career
-Learning punctuality / learning to take authority/ take instructions / learn how to be docile and bored/
- Learn independence and critical thinking
- Build relationships and make friends
- Develop an identity
- Learn new skills and gain confidence in a given field
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Social Control
Secondary Socialisation
Serving Economic Needs
Social Mobility
Social Cohesion
Functions of education:Key word Definition
TASK:
What are your definitions of these key words first? Talk to your partner.
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Social ControlSchools act as agents of social control by teaching acceptance of rules and authority.
Secondary SocialisationThe norms and values taught during school. It is a continuation of primary education which begins in the family.
Serving Economic NeedsSchools teach the skills and knowledge necessary for work in a modern, technical, industrial society e.g. literacy and ICT. School transmit knowledge required by the economy.
Social MobilityThe movement of individuals up or down a social scale. Schools provide the opportunity to achieve recognised qualifications.
Social Cohesion'Sticking together'. It describes the integration of society into a unified whole. Achieved by representing the norms and values of one's culture e.g. 'Britishness'.
Functions of education:Key word Definition
TASK:What are your definitions of these key words first? Talk to your partner.
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Formal Education
Informal Education
Learning through particular subjects for example maths or english (the things on your timetable in school)
Learning through observing what goes on around you, through experience of life (e.g. learning skills and attitudes from parents or siblings)
Key word Definition What do you think 'formal' and 'informal'education is?How might both be important in later life?
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The Hidden Curriculum
What do we learn in school that ISN'T in our formal education?
Think - Pair - Share
The ways in which the organisation of teaching, school regulations and routines shape pupils attitudes and behaviour - what students learn at school that isn't taught in lessons.
How important do you think school is in preparing us for the world of work?Justify your answer.
Key word DefinitionHarrow
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Compulsory Education Handout
Using the printed out information, complete the timeline activity outlining the effects of compulsory
education.
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CONSIDER: What is this cartoon suggesting?
Can you guess the key word for this picture?
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Meritocracy:a society where jobs and pay are allocated on the basis purely of people's individual talents, abilities, qualifications and skills.
Class discussion: To what extent do you think it's true that we live in a meritocracy today?Left hand side of the room: What evidence is there to support it?Right hand side of the room: What evidence is there to refute it?
Key word Definition
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The problems with meritocracy
Do working class children have as much chance to succeed as middle-class children?
What is 'merit'? Effort? Attainment? Presentation? Originality?Different values are rewarded differently.
Meritocracy suggests that inequality is fair and just - encouraging elitism.
Encourages competitiveness and not collaboration or helpfulness.
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Competing and Conflicting values:What do you think the following values
refer to?
What sets of values can/should schools
transmit?
Industrial values: school is there to teach you how to work.
Postmodern values: school exists to teach us how to learn and find ourselves
Religious values: school exists to teach us our religion
Moral values: school exists to teach right from wrong; how to live in society
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Why might school be considered good for us?
Why might school be considered bad for us?
Think - Pair - Share
We have already discussed some of the reasons as to why school may be
considered good for us.
Task: Fill out the table with reasons explaining why schoolmay be see as good or bad.
De-SchoolingThe idea that schools stifle creativity and train children to be mindless consumers; compulsory schooling hinders the learning process and we should stop it.
Key word Definition
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PlenaryClosed book definition challenge
How well can you write your own definitions to key words from this lesson?
Hidden curriculum
Formal education
Meritocracy
Social control
Secondary socialisation
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