Education Flashcards
Formal education
Occurs in institutional settings
- Tend to be organized by the state
Informal education
Stresses societal norms and values, working to socialize the next generation
Educational Institutions are responsible for what?
Responsible for the transmission of knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes deemed desirable
Residential School
- Earliest of formal education
- Re-socialize aboriginal kids people to become ‘civilized’
Mass Education (a common moral education)
- tax-supported elementary schools in Canada
- Divided education by gendered expectations
- Industrialization and immigration
- Viewed as essential to economic development
Which province was first to offer free compulsory education?
Ontario; then other followed in the early 1900s
What did the gendered expectation in education reinforce?
The notion that girls and boys have different occupational and social roles
- Girls = nurturing occupations (nursing, teacher)
- Boys = vocational trades or advanced studies
Massification
Significant rise in post secondary educational attainment
- in 2010, more then 60% of those over 25 had some form of post-secondary education
Education leads to _______, ________, ________ and _______
Education leads to jobs, greater income, improved health and a good standard of living
Credential inflation
The ever-increasing cache of educational credentials required for a particular job
What are factors students rely on when looking into which university to attend?
Institutional & program reputation, campus location, campus safety, financial costs
Women now account for almost ____ % of undergraduates
60%
Women constitute of ___% of teachers but only __% of principals
64% but only 22%
Women represent just over ____ of all university faculty positions
1/3
Chilly climate (Feminist)
The lack of warmth or encouragement that girls and women feel in school as a result of sexism
What are some changes with post-secondary institutions?
- Gov funding has declined dramatically
- Less professors but more students = bigger classes
- Higher tuition
- Corporate models
- Secure external funding = cant research controversial subjects
- Quality and accountability = quantitative assessments rather than quality based
McDonaldization (Ritzer)
The notion that universities are expected to function in ever more efficient ways, with a high degree of predictability and standardization
Neil Curtis is highly critical of a consumer model of education. What does he worry will happen due to McDonaldization?
He worries that setting up the professor-student relationship as a salesperson-customer relationship will produce students who lack the capacity for independent thought, are hesitant to take risks, and will not pursue self-directed learning
What are 5 things that lead to McDonaldization?
1) Efficiency = drive-thru, fast
2) Calculability = not worried about quality, worried about # of sales
3) Predictability
4) Control through technology = identified by our student #, can’t be customized (burger)
5) Irrationality of rationality = huge line at the drive-thru even tho it should be efficient
Academic Integrity
Cheating; over half of undergraduates admit to cheating
What do students apply when thinking about academic integrity?
They apply the rational choice theory
Why has there been a rise in academic dishonesty?
There is a rise because students need higher grades to get into a specific college
Functionalism:
What is Parsons view on Schools as a social system?
Schools need to both serve and reflect the values and interests of the society in which they operate
Through which two functions do schools help maintain equilibrium of the social system?
1) Allocation = grades, diplomas, certificates, degrees (acts as a sorting mechanism for future roles in society)
2) Socialization = assimilation (teaches students how to function in the larger society)