Cultural Capital, Practical Intelligence and Success
Being an analytical genius is not necessarily enough to achieve success in life – it also helps if your parents […]
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Sociological perspectives on the role and functions of education in society; the significance of in-school processes such as teacher labelling and subcultures for pupil identities; explanations for differences in educational achievement by social class, gender and ethnicity; the impact of education policies of marketization, selection and privatisation, and the globalization of education
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Are League Tables Good for Education?
The New Right introduced league tables into the UK education system in 1988, and today they are part of the
education, Functionalism
Talcott Parsons’ Perspective on Education
Writing in the 1950s Parsons argued that modern education systems performed two main functions – role allocation and providing value consensus through meritocracy.
education, teaching and learning theory
Seven Transferable Skills Teachers Can Take to Other Professions
Producing engaging written and audio visual resources Emotional sensitivity Evaluation and decision making based on standardized criteria Presentation and communication
Book summaries, education
Why Intelligence Doesn’t Explain Success
A summary of Malcom Gladwell’s ‘Outliers’ chapter 3: The Trouble With Genius, Part 1. Over the past Decade, Chris Langan
Durkheim’s Perspective on Education
Emile Durkheim argued that schools were essential for ‘imprinting’ shared social values into the minds of children. He believed schools would play a central role in forming modern societies.
education, Exams and revision advice
Do exam results matter?
So it’s A level result’s day and you’ve stuffed up. But do exam results actually matter? IF you wish to pursue
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Do bad exam results matter?
Results day tomorrow, and I predict that Social Media will be full of comments by celebrities telling students that exam
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Why IQ Tests May not Measure Intelligence
The American psychologist Arthur Jensen (1973) defines intelligence as ‘abstract reasoning ability’ – the ability to discover the rules, patterns
education, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim
Changing Education Paradigms
In this TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson argues that our current educational systems are still based on a industrial paradigm