Chapter 12 Flashcards
Formal education
Regulated by the state
Information education
Stresses norms and values
Residential schools
- Earliest form of formal education
- Make indigenous people ‘civilized’
Origins of Education
Mass education
- Education started because it is viewed as essential
- girls and boys educated differently
Current Education rates
more highschool/post secondary participation
Women account for 56.8 of undergraduates
Underemployed
Have more schooling than they need for their job
Functionalism - Education
Schools help maintain balance of social system
Symbolic Interactionism - Education
Whats attached to school practices
Conflict theory - Education
Schooling serves the capitalist aims of profit and compliant workers
Early feminist - education
Focused on the sexism embedded in both school texts and classroom practice
contemporary feminist - education
Continue to focus on gendered patterns of interaction
Anti-racist - education
Race and racism are central to how we claim, occupy and defend spaces
Bourdieu
Schools reproduce existing power relations; they are not value neutral
Post-structural theory - education
Cannot separate knowledge from the context in which it is produced
Issues in education
Government funding declined dramatically
Higher fees
Quantitative assessments over quality
McDonalization
Universities are expected to function in ever more
efficient ways with bigger class size and few teachers/funding
Academic integrity
Most students cheat
Teachers that catch cheating do nothing about it
