Theoretical Perspectives
Looking at Education from three theoretical perspectives.
If we do a survey there might be over 95% of people are interested to join school, get educated and study as far as they can. Education helps us foster the mentality in everyone that we have to be inclusive citizens. Most of the people make a good amount of income from schools, if we see the positive side it also create self-confidence for each individual. Let’s analyze the school from different prospective.
Functionalist View of School:
A functionalist’s perspective on schooling and education is to have a harmony perspective: examine society in terms of how it is maintained for the common good. A functionalist will put an emphasis on positive aspects of schools such as socialization: …show more content…
Now we’re going to examine factors inside school which affect at child’s ability to get 5 good GCSEs.
This perspective is known as an Interactionist perspective, because the sociologists who conducted this research used Interactionist research methods to create their findings. These methods include, observations (covert and overt); open-ended interviews; open-ended questionnaires.
Schools have been the subject of much continuing controversy about their purposes, responsibilities and effects on young people. It has been estimated that young people spend close to half their waking hours in school and inevitably their experience of school has the potential for positive and negative impact on later life.
Major early research raised doubts about whether education even made a difference. It was argued that the differences found between schools academic achievements were due to differences in the social class, family and other social conditions of the students (that is material and cultural factors we’ve just been looking …show more content…
He found the better the school the better a child’s level of attainment irrespective of cultural and material factors. His findings are summarized as follows
As we can see the better the school environment, the better the chances of a child doing well. Recent research has shown the effect of social-class on attainment at school is as important as ever. Other research suggests that that what goes on in the classroom has a major impact on a child doing well at school to the extent they are more important than the immediate effects of material and cultural factors mentioned earlier. Which look closer at the effects of classroom
If we do a survey there might be over 95% of people are interested to join school, get educated and study as far as they can. Education helps us foster the mentality in everyone that we have to be inclusive citizens. Most of the people make a good amount of income from schools, if we see the positive side it also create self-confidence for each individual. Let’s analyze the school from different prospective.
Functionalist View of School:
A functionalist’s perspective on schooling and education is to have a harmony perspective: examine society in terms of how it is maintained for the common good. A functionalist will put an emphasis on positive aspects of schools such as socialization: …show more content…
Now we’re going to examine factors inside school which affect at child’s ability to get 5 good GCSEs.
This perspective is known as an Interactionist perspective, because the sociologists who conducted this research used Interactionist research methods to create their findings. These methods include, observations (covert and overt); open-ended interviews; open-ended questionnaires.
Schools have been the subject of much continuing controversy about their purposes, responsibilities and effects on young people. It has been estimated that young people spend close to half their waking hours in school and inevitably their experience of school has the potential for positive and negative impact on later life.
Major early research raised doubts about whether education even made a difference. It was argued that the differences found between schools academic achievements were due to differences in the social class, family and other social conditions of the students (that is material and cultural factors we’ve just been looking …show more content…
He found the better the school the better a child’s level of attainment irrespective of cultural and material factors. His findings are summarized as follows
As we can see the better the school environment, the better the chances of a child doing well. Recent research has shown the effect of social-class on attainment at school is as important as ever. Other research suggests that that what goes on in the classroom has a major impact on a child doing well at school to the extent they are more important than the immediate effects of material and cultural factors mentioned earlier. Which look closer at the effects of classroom