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What is education?

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Institution responsible fro the transmission of knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes deemed desirable.

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What are the two types of education?

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formal education and informal education

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What is formal education?

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regulated and organized by the state

-ex. the marks you get

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What is informal education?

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Stresses societal norms and values, working to socialize the next generation

  • what happens inner everyday life
  • societal norms and values pushed back or accepted
  • more than what’s happening on campus
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What are the earliest forms of education. Explain

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Residential schools–re-socialize Aboriginal people to become ‘civilized.’

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What was mass education?

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  • Industrialization and immigration

- Education viewed as essential to economic development

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Which was the first province to offer are compulsory education?

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Ontario

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How did mass education differ between boys and girls?

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Girls and boys educated differently, males given vocational training in preparation for the labour market while girls were prepared to be housewives or to work in ‘nurturing’ occupations.

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What has there been a significant rise in with current educational rates?

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post-secondary educational attainment

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What creates the standardized student?

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Massification of higher education participation

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Does a high school diploma translate into the same kind of pay as it could a few decades ago?

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No

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Women account for___% of full-time undergraduate students (2010-2011)?

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57

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What is credential inflation?

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Ever-increasing cache of educational credentials required for a particular job allows schooling to act as a means of exclusion.

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What is credential inflation party a result of?

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Increased need for technical knowledge is some positions (engineering, competing, mechanics), not so much with others (nursing, social work, business).

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Why can employers now demand more credentials?

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Because there are so many applicants–global job market.

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Who does credential inflation exclude?

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Capable, lower class who cannot afford education.

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How do functionalists approach education?

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Schools need to both serve and reflect the values and interests of the society in which they operate. Schools help maintain equilibrium of social system

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What do schools act as according to functionalism?

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  • Act as a sorting mechanism for future roles in society (through allocation of grades)
  • Teaches students how to function in the larger society (socialization)
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What is the criticism of the functionalist approach to education?

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Clings to idea of society as a meritocracy, ignoring one’s social location.

  • Forcing people into a mould that isn’t working
  • Education rigged for failure (weeding out process)
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What is the conflict theories approach to education?

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Schooling saves the capitalist aims of profit and compliant workers –> mould into student and capitalist worker

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What is Bowles and Gintis’ correspondence principle?

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Prevails between schools and workplace. Similar means of motivating behaviour and authority structures. Students from privileged class backgrounds are more likely to continue to higher levels of schooling.

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Which theory believes that schools work to prevent social class mobility, prevent upward movement in social class, and can perpetuate social inequality?

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Conflict theory

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What does symbolic interactionism look at with education?

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Examine meanings attached to school practices, around your school work.

24
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What does Howard Becker look at?

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  • Teacher-imposed labels can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy
  • Through interactive process one comes to embody a label–ADHD, “Bad” student –> become a different person.
25
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What do contemporary studies show with the self-fulfilling prophecy and education?

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That self-fulfilling prophecy remains concern especially in relation to gender, race, and class.

26
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What does early feminist theory look at with education (3 things)?

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  • focused on the sexism embedded in both school texts and classroom practices
  • women represented as passive objects or altogether absent (girls taught to be quiet)
  • teachers engage more with boys than with girls
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What does contemporary feminist studies look at with education?

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  • continue to focus gendered patterns of interaction
  • boys continue to have more classroom interaction with teacher
  • behaviour that is accepted from boys is corrected in girls (and vice versa)
  • *hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity**
28
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With contemporary feminist studies, is sexism as prevalent in course texts?

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no

29
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What is an example of contemporary feminist studies?

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Different tasks given to boys an girls: boys set out chairs, girls decorate

30
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What is the anti-racist approach to education?

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Race and racism are central in how we claim, occupy, and defend spaces.

31
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What do anti-racist theorist see as a problem with Canadian schools?

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Majority of teachers in Canadian schools are white thus imperative need to reflect on the ways in which colonialist ,imperialist, and capitalist histories are reproduced in classrooms.

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What are anti-racist approaches committed to with education?

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To create classroom spaces that enable students to think through an question their assumptions about the world.

33
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What is Bourdieu’s (cultural theory) approach to education?

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How is inequality reproduced? How is privilege transferred? Cultural capital. Schools reproduce existing power relations; they are not value natural.

34
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What is cultural capital?

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Refers to a set of usable resources (skills, habits, manners) that can translate into economic and social success.

35
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What do children from higher class come to school with?

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Greater cultural capital

36
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How does post-structuralism approach education?

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  • Foucault: power/knowledge nexus
  • Cannot separate knowledge from the context in which it is produced (how we look at our universities and access to information; who has the power to create knowledge).
37
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What is discourse?

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Systems of thought that govern how we might think, speak, or act about a particular topic.

38
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What is an example of post-structuralism with education?

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Montgomery (2005) Racism in textbooks

39
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Tuition rates have increased___% for general arts programs in the past 27 years in Canada.

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280

40
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What is the average annual tuition for arts student in 2012-2013?

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$5581

41
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Which two professional disciplines has the highest tuition?

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Dentistry and Law

42
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What plays a role in university attendance? Why?

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  • Social class
  • Most students in medical school come from families with high household incomes, high parental education levels, and high-status parental occupations
43
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Women now accuse for almost___% of undergraduates?

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60

44
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What professions do females and males, respectively, remain concentrated in?

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Females: education, humanities, and social sciences
Males: math and engineering

45
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What is the gendered workplace with education?

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-Women constitutie 83% of elementary teachers and 57% of high school teachers; underrepresented in principal position (53% and 32%, respectively)

46
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___% of all university professorial positions filled by women.

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36

47
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What are the current problems with post-secondary institutions?

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  • Government funding declined dramatically

- Faculty members have decreased wile enrolment rates have increased.

48
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Have student tuition fees increased or decreased for post-secondary education?

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increased

49
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What is there a move towards with post-secondary institutions?

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corporate models

50
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What is their a push to secure with post-secondary institutions?

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External funding (donations –> affect research done –> disproportionate capacity to influence the type of worker produced)

51
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Universities now rely on___assessments rather than___based.

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-quantitive
-quality
(drive for number vs. capacity to think)

52
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What is the McDonaldization of universities?

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Universities are expected to function in ever more efficient ways, with a high degree of predictability nd standardization
-Students are customers who consume education

53
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What are some examples of McDonaldization in universities?

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  • Increased class sizes
  • Few faculty members
  • Less government funding
  • increased tuition costs.
54
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What percent of undergraduates admit to cheating?

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53%

55
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___% of teachers and ___% of teaching assistants ignored cases of suspected academic misconduct.

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  • 46

- 38

56
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Why is their a lack of administrative support for academic integrity?

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Because there is a push to push students through–no stain on institution–business model–don’t want to lost tuition.

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