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history of mass education

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  • 300yrs ago with only nobels and wealthy able to access it
  • few professions requiring extensive schooling
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mass education today

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a universal feature
of European and North American life by
the early 20th century

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mass education statistics

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  • 1/5th of Canadians are in institutions currently
  • over 5 million in school
  • 2.5 million in college and university
  • 13.5% of worlds people are illiterate
  • 774 million people can’t read or write
  • 63% of the worlds people being illiterate are women
  • 54% of canadians (age 25-64) had certificate, diploma or college/uni degree
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goal of mass education

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universal literacy

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eurocentrism and mass education

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European people nobility were those who predominantly had educations
- Creation of residential schools

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origins of public education

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Ryerson
1844-1855: toured europe to study
1846: Published Report on a system of public
elementary education for Upper Canada

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what was Ryerson’s conclusion of public education?

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  • Schools should be free, mandatory for all children
  • Teach Christian morals

Post-secondary education: society would be improved through religion and education promoted through denominational universities

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rise of mass education

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  • replaced family and religion with centralized and rationalized system
  • created strong pressure towards uniformity and standardization
  • huge social change
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reasons for mass education

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  1. printing press
  2. Protestantism
  3. Democracy
  4. Industrialization
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printing press

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Enabled literacy to spread
beyond elite circles

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Protestantism

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Protestants
were encouraged to read
scriptures regularly

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Democracy

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Led to the
demand for free education
for all children

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Industrialization

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Mass education is
widely recognized as an
absolute necessity for
creating an industrial
economy

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reasons for rise of mass education:stats

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  1. rise of
    mass schooling was
    industrialization
  2. evident that a
    highly productive
    economy requires an
    education system
  3. large enough to create a
    mass labour force
  4. rich enough to train and
    employ researchers able
    to work at the cutting
    edge of modern science
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jobs and earnings: rise of mass education

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Higher educational attainment helps people get jobs
and earn more

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jobs and earnings statistics

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  • Employment rates of university graduates are about one-third higher
    than high school graduates.
  • Average annual income is 82 percent higher than that of high
    school graduates
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mass schooling and national wealth

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  • widely acknowledged
    that investment in education is important step in achieving
    great national wealth
  • education is source and product of wealth
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educational attainment

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  • # of years of school thatstudents complete.
  • Believed to be largely an outcome of
    individual talent and hard work
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educational achievement

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how much students actually learn

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sociological theories of education: functionalism

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  1. Manifest Functions
  2. Latent (unintended) Functions
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Manifest Functions

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  • Sort students.
  • Train students.
  • Socialize students.
  • Transmit culture
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Latent (unintended) Functions

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  • Encourages development of a separate youth culture.
  • Serves as a “marriage market.”
  • Acts as a custodial service.
  • Promotes social change.
    Latent (unintended) Functions
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Marriage Market

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competitive forum for the establishment of long-term, intimate relations between individuals

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Functionalist stats

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2.1 million full-time and part-time students were enrolled in Canada’s 179 colleges

college tuition fees are generally lower than university fees and that most college students live with their parents

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sociological theories of education: conflict theory

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  • schools distribute educational benefits unequally
  • children from the upper classes
  • children from higher-status racial
    and ethnic groups
  • results in a
    reproduction of the societal stratification system.
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conflict theory and educational attainment

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2/3rd of top 10% income earners have university degrees
bottom 90% don’t

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conflict theory beliefs in education

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deny that the college system increases upward mobility and equality.

think it is the entire stratification system that is upwardly mobile

community colleges reinforce prevailing patterns of inequality by
- directing students from disadvantaged backgrounds away from universities
- decreasing the probability that they will earn a four-year degree and a high-status position

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parents social class and education

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  1. increase in one-parent households
  2. parents who earn low income more likely to experience financial problems
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one-parent household education stats

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  1. unable to rely on adults for
    - tutoring
    - emotional support
    - supervision
    - role-modelling
  2. 19yr olds from economically marginalized communities are 6x likely to be in raised one-parent household
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lack of cultural capital stats: education

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  • Parents with high income are 2 1/2x as likely as parents with low incomes to have earned undergraduate degrees
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importance of cultural capital

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university education gives people cultural capital that they can transmit to their children, thus improving their chance of financial success

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cultural capital meaning

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widely shared, high-status cultural signals used for social and cultural exclusion

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cultural signals

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  • attitudes
  • preferences
  • formal
  • knowledge
  • behaviours
  • goals
  • credentials
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cultural capital stats

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families with high income are 61%x likely than those from families with low income to be enrolled in university at the age of 19

60% of 25-34yr olds whos fathers are professionals or managers attend uni

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streaming

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academic practice where
students choose academic or applied
stream before beginning high school

36
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why are IQ and standardized test are employed to students?

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channel students into:
1. high-ability (enriched)
2. middle-ability
3. low-ability

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high-ability

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enriched

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middle-ability and low-ability

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basic or special education

39
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2 factors of symbolic interactionism and education

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  1. stereotype threat
  2. Pygmalion effect
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stereotype threat

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negative impact of stereotypes on the school performance disadvantaged groups

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Pygmalion effect/self-fulfilling prophecy

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high expectations lead to high-performance, low expectation leads to low performance

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symbolic interactionism facts

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  • Students who are treated as inferior may
    come to feel rejected by teachers, other
    classmates, and the curriculum.
  • eventually reject academics achievement as a goal.
  • Discipline problems, ranging from apathy to
    disruptive and illegal behaviour
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Robinson: changing education paradigms and reasons why for change

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  1. economic
  2. cultural
44
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Hidden curriculum

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unstated or unofficial goals of the education system

45
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hidden curriculum: streaming stats

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july 2020:
- Ontario Minister of Education ended streaming
- black & indigenous peoples were overrepresented in applied and essential stream
- black GTA students were discriminated from taking academic courses

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consequences of hidden curriculum

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  1. Limited post-secondary
    options
  2. eurocentrism “universal normal”
  3. academic outcomes
47
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education and feminist theory facts

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  1. women have higher grade point averages then men
  2. men receive 56% of degrees granted
  3. men receive more degrees at a PhD level
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degrees and men

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  1. large # of men earn degrees in engineering, comsci, dentistry and specialized fields of medicine
  2. large # of women earn PhDs in education, english, foreign language, and low-paying fields compared to math and science
  3. gender gap earnings increase 1st and 5th yr of employment
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gender pay earnings gap

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  1. education
  2. health
  3. business
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Corporatization

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The reshaping of
universities, utilizing a business model

51
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corporatization facts

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  1. Consumers of higher education paying a
    larger share of the cost of the services
    they enjoy.
  2. Universities responding to market demand for particular skills.
52
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history of corporatization

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  • started 1980s
  • unis were heavily subsidized by gov
  • Academic personnel had more freedom to shape uni priorities
  • Few instructors were cost-cutting part-
    timers
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tuititon inflation

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fell from 1965-1981
remained study in 1982-1989
began to rise rapidly

in 2017-18 average fees were 2.6x higher
consumers (students and their families) paid dearly

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canada and corporatization uni facts

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  • gov contributes 41% of post-secondary revenue
  • tuition covers 28%
  • private doners are big corporations and their owners
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canada and corporatization

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  • 37 well-do countries in OECD, Canada ranks 32nd in gov contribution to Canada
  • 6 northern Europeans countries govs pay more then 90% of post-secondary avenue
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uni enrollment field in canada: highest (2018 recent)

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  1. health
    - 167k
  2. business
    - 253k
  3. architecture
    /engineering
    - 142k
  4. science
    - 139k
  5. math & computer science
    - 65k
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Canadian Schools: Public Attitudes and
International Comparison: 1979 and 2007

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% of adult Canadians giving public
schools grades of A or B declined from 59% to 48%

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Ontario – Between 1980 and 2015

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% of adults expressing
satisfaction with the schools rose from 51% to 60%

Canadians believe that the public school need to become
more rigorous with increased focus on
- math
- science
- language.

59
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Between 1979 and 2007

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% of adult Canadians giving public
schools a grade of A or B declined from 59% to 48%

60
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worlds top 10 school systems

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reading:
- Singapore
- canada
- finland

science:
- singapore
- japan
- estonia
(canada is 5th)

math:
- singapore
- taiwan
- japan
(canada is 7th)

overall:
- singapore
- japan
- estonia
(canada is 6th)

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