Education
Chapter 10  Discussion Questions

• How far, and in what ways, does contemporary education reflect the needs of the economy? Should education only be vocational?
  
• Does it matter what curriculum students follow? Does a national curriculum constitute a good education?
  
• Which explanation of educational achievement - biological, cultural or material - can best account for the changing educational performance of either women and men or different ethnic minorities?
  
• How do anti-school cultures develop? Do schools have any power to inhibit their development?