Understanding Education and Society Quiz

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Understanding Education and Society Quiz

Test your knowledge on various aspects of education, its functions, and theories through our comprehensive quiz. This quiz features 16 multiple-choice questions that cover a range of topics including the role of education in society, perspectives on education, and key theorists.

  • Explore the hidden curriculum and its impact on societal values.
  • Learn about the contributions of various sociologists.
  • Challenge yourself with questions that assess your understanding of educational theories.
16 Questions4 MinutesCreated by EngagedScholar102
Education meets a key functional prerequisite by passing in on the core values of society. This is achieved through the formal and ....................... curriculum
Hidden
Informal
New
Particularistic values prioritise which kinds of relationships?
Inappropriate
Appropriate
Inpersonal
Personal
Are particularistic values .....
Acsribed
Achieved
Possessed
What is the function of education according to Davis and Moore ?
To sort the Wheat from the Chaff
To Sift people for different levels of the job market
By grading people though exams and streaming.
Legitimizing inequalities in society
Identify the perspective: Competition between schools will lead to a more efficient educational system.
New Left
New Right
Marxist
Feminist
What would Marxists argue?
The school only assesses 1 type of intelligence
That girls do better than boys becuase their brains are more developed
That fucntionalist perspectives ignore the inequalities in power in society.
Knitting can kick start peoples' class consciousness.
Althusser is a ........
Functionalist
Interpretivist
Marxist
Neo Marxist
According to Althusser......
Teachers teach on the basis of preconcieved ideas about intelligence.
Teachers exploit the talents of students to extract there surplus value
Teachers own the means of production
To prevent the W/C for rebelling against there exploitation, the ruling class must win the heart and minds by persuading them to accept ruling class ideology.
Bourdieu introduces us to the concept of:
Cultural Capital
Habitus
Hegenomy
False Consciouness
What did Bowles and Gintis introduce the Concept of?
The long Shadow of Work
The role of the hidden curriculum ligitimizing inequality
The correspondance principle
Features of the Hidden Curriculum:
Free breakfast for the poor
Time keeping
Respect for those in Authority
Time off when you are ill
Motivating you to work hard for grades.
Paul Willis' research found that:
School is pointless
School prepares the W/C for W/C jobs
Schools do not directly prepare the sort of obedient and docile labour force required for capitalism
The W/C reject schools values and want to leave as quickly as possible
Do not possess cultural capital
Interactionists are interested in~:
Small scale samples
Qualitative data
Interested in how meanings are established
Macro approach
Micro approach
What is the Halo Effect?
Angels
Devils
Favourably stereotyped.
What is a pivotal Identity?
An identity that is pivotal
How an identity provides a pivot for teachers to interpret and reinterpret class room events a students behavious.
 
What did Becker discover?
Teachers are rubbish
Teacher judge on the basis of cultural capital
Teacher initially evaluate pupils in relation to stereotypes.
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