1. Outcome: to understand the feminist views on the role of the education
Feminism & Education
Outcome: to understand the feminist views on the role of the education
Progress:
ALL: to identify and explain the feminist views on the role of education, applying examples
MOST: evaluate the claims made by feminists, applying examples
SOME: contrast with the ideas of other theories of education
Specification: The role and functions of the education system, including its relationship to the economy and to class structure

2. Task List
Go to:
Copy & Paste the information into a document. Read through the information. In a different colour, add some evaluation points for each feminist idea. Print out to stick in notes book.
Then look at the slides at the bottom of the page. Answer each question in your assessment books. After each question, scroll along to the answer, and anything you have missed out on, add in green pen to your answer.

3. A03 – Analysis & Evaluation Questions
COMPLETE IN GREEN BOOKS
1. Identify three significant differences between Marxist; Feminist and Functionalist perspectives of education
2. Identify and briefly explain the key differences between Marxist; Functionalist and Feminist (Feminist views of the hidden curriculum are less explicit, so you will have to think about this) views of the hidden curriculum
Use the slides at the bottom of the page as a guide:

4. Stretch Task: Show off your knowledge to the examiner.
Outcome: To demonstrate an understanding of Postmodernist theory (the most recent and current sociological theory). Complete Box 9 on page 74.

5. POST MODERNISM& ROLE OF EDUCATION
NO SINGLE TRUTH – SOCIETY IS FRAGMENTED AND DIVERSE
Intro:

6. Key Concepts
Identity
Choice
Fragmentation
Diversity
Consumerism

7. What is POSTMODERNISM start by looking at modernism
Post modernism = postmodernism
Pre modern -modern - postmodern
birth of science and technology
birth of sociology to explain how society works – functionalism, Marxism
Same beliefs , values & norms & morals
Same sense of vision /pride
Shared interest
Everyone was rational ,autonomous , individuals
Individualism – mass what is really is on going group conflict – we are defined by gender , class , ethnicity , etc human are group creatures .

9. Postmodernism SOCIETY IS DIVERSE THE WORLD IS A REPRESENTATION
NO FINAL TRUTH
COMPLEX
ALL TRUTH IS RELATIVE
FICTION
Postmodernism : philosophy of education
Narratives ,
Technology – nuclear power , car emission modern world science that it prides itself on – analysis , obersvation is one one way of thinking about world , male white bow down before science
UNCERTAIN
REALITY IS NOT FIXED OR DETERMINED
NO BOUNDARIES
WORLD DISORDER /FRAGMENTATION

10. Class is no longer important – identity is created by the self.
Reject “grand narratives” or master narratives. LYOTARD (e.g. science – Legitimation /how it claims truth)
Deconstruction
Class is no longer important – identity is created by the self.
competing
No true or false /No true account of reality
FOUCALT – meaningless to speak in name of or against reason/ truth
Truth / knowledge – meaningless concept
which means a method of look for weak points in modern thinking and question established ways of perception ,thinking. Attack all other theories

11. Education

12. GENERAL VIEW OF EDUCATION
Aim of education – empower & fight human power, rights , against inequalities .Citizenship
Students = social cultural beings
Curriculum – empower & transform society
Diversity & difference – identify and value it will help develop society
History- margins of society /your own history & culture
Teachers role – facilitator
Ethics ,moral / critical education /diversity

13. POSTMODERNIST ....... HENRY GIROUX – education standard is white.
ROBIN USHER & RICHARD EDWARDS - No single curriculum – school should teach different things and accept different truths. Academies free from National Curriculum.
Education to cater to all whatever your social class , sexual orientation , ethnicity and gender. Every Child Matters / Value Added Judgements
Education has become a consumption e.g. adult education & the rise of fee paying education.
Postmodern society – choice & diversity , consumption
Flexibility & long distance learning
Education individual needs: Part time , internet , evening classes
Greater choice in gaining knowledge , any subject
Study not just for work , but knowledge

14. Supporting Evidence
Many people agree that schools do kill creativity (Ted Robinson, and Suli-Breaks)
Sue Palmer – Teaching the test has resulted in school being miserable and stressful for many pupils. Rise in Mental Health issues in schools.
History & English have been seen as ethnocentric (focussing on White / European culture)
Do we really want an education system more like the Chinese one?
The National Curriculum has been criticised as being ethnocentric (potentially oppressive to minority groups).

15. Link to Policies
Ideas of education which fit with a postmodern agenda include –
Home Education
Liberal forms of education (Summerhill School)
Steiner
Adult Education and Life Long Learning (because adults can make more of a choice)
Education outside of formal education (leisure)

16. Strenghs & Criticisms (A03)
+ Positive light on education – empower & transform society
+ Recognises diversity
- Unclear definition of post modernity , unclear about what they are about clear on what they are against
- There is political and economic control of society
- Class is still influential in determining ‘life-chances’.
- You don’t know whether they are criticising education or praising education
- What about common values – celebrating that

17. Homework
Go through your 20 mark assessment essay you did on Marxism. Can you apply any of the knowledge you’ve learnt about Liberal, Feminist, or Postmodernist theories to criticise or support Marxist perspectives? Create a list of 6-10 sentences that you could have included in your essay’s evaluation points (A03), and add a number key to show where you could have included them.