Whilst we were studying theories for education, we had a student teacher, who didn't teach us very well. I was going through a past paper, and one of the essay questions was:
"Examiner the different functions that the education system may perform for individuals and society"
Initially, I thought I could arrange this by theory e.g Functionalists, Marxists, but thought it would be too list like, so I am now try to arrange by function e.g socialisation, economic but this is becoming really complicated.
I looked on Sociologystuff.com and got some really useful information, but half the stuff we haven't done. We hardly have anything on Functionalism, and for Marxism, we just had to do things by ourselves.
How would you answer the above question? Also what do I need to know, theorywise for the education paper?
Thanks!