... gender all have significant values on the attainment in schools. To provide justice and equality has been a prevalent issue for governments over the centuries; affirmative action is not a new phenomena, education needs to be continually adapting to the environment in which we live in. Pioneering research from Durkheim saw education as an essential socialising agency, maintaining social control ... and order. Parsons claimed education was a bridge from family to the wider world. (Letts, 2001) In contrast to the functionalist theory, Marxism took a new perspective on the school environment...

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