What are the roles and functions of education?

What the syllabus asks of you

• The functionalist view: The positive roles and functions of education: the roles of education: socialisation, social control, economic, selective; meritocracy and social mobility; role allocation; value consensus; equal opportunities; standardised testing; setting by ability; vocationalism
• The functionalist view: Strengths and limitations of the functionalist view
• The Marxist view: The roles and functions of education in the reproduction of class inequalities: socialisation and social control as capitalist ideological control; the hidden and official curriculum; the middle-class culture in schools, e.g. the importance of cultural capital; the myth of meritocracy; material factors, e.g. access to digital technology; setting by ability
• The Marxist view: Strengths and limitations of the Marxist view
• The feminist view: The roles and functions of education in perpetuating gender inequalities: the patriarchal culture of education; male power; gender hierarchy; role models; access to education; gendered curriculum / subject choice; teacher expectations; peer groups and social control
• The feminist view: Strengths and limitations of the feminist view