Discuss the range of ideologies underpinning our education system, with reference to literature and recent school experience

Discuss the range of ideologies underpinning our education system, with reference to literature and recent school experience Order Description Meighan and Harber, in A Sociology of Educating (2007) define ideology as: “a broad interlocked set of ideas and beliefs about the world held by a group of people that they demonstrate in both behaviour and conversation to various audiences. These systems of belief are usually seen as ‘the way things really are’ by the groups holding them, and they become the taken-for-granted ways of making sense of the world.” (Meighan and Harber, 2007: 212). This tends to suggest that Education must always be underpinned by one ideology or another (or a mixture of many) and can never be neutral or value free. Discuss the ideas and beliefs that you have encountered on your educational journey so far and relate them to established educational ideologies. (Remember ideologies exist at a range of levels from academic to classroom level). Describe and analyse examples of ideologies in action. Have you experienced a situation where beliefs do not match your own? How did you manage? Which ideology or ideologies best fit your idea of education and why? Can you explain your own educational ideology at this point in time, in other words what do you ‘stand for’ or believe in and why are these beliefs and ideas important to you?