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What is education for? Critically evaluate the diverse functions of education with reference to recent changes in education policy.
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What is education for? Critically evaluate the diverse functions of education with reference to recent changes in education policy. In determining what education is for the different ideological perspectives of the main political parties has to be taken into account. This area of social welfare has become highly politicised in recent years, resulting in many reports and recommendations of which some have become social policy. It is these policies this essay will investigate and compare them to the diverse functions of education to see wether or not they are compatible. The main functions I want to consider are, education as a means of socialisation and social control. The use of education as way of reducing social inequality or as a means of reproducing social inequalities, and lastly the possibilities of education being a benefit to the individual or to society economically. This will draw the essay to conclude that although free...
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