... drawbacks. For example, teachers using PowerPoint presentations and YouTube videos to basically teach their classes for them. Computer technology has had a deep impact on the education of young students. Thanks to computers, imparting education has become easier and much more interesting that before. Starting with all the ... refer to the Internet than searching for information in thick thousand-page books. The process of learning has gone beyond learning from textbooks to a much larger and easier storage unit of information. Computers allow for taking notes faster during class and being...

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... 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; who argued that education is a function in which to maintain class inequalities in wealth and power. (Giddens, 1993) The reproduction of a subservient workforce, which respects authoritarian ... have been trained, in order to introduce a system of equality; research shows that they too aspire to those of different classes to themselves and promote the middle cla...

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