Module 7 - Education

Question 1

explain social exclusion

Answer 1

kind of the social barriers that limit or prevent some groups from getting or accessing education.

Question 2

what is credential inflation? example?

Answer 2

Needing higher levels of education to obtain a job that in the past maybe didn’t rewire schooling to be taught how. ex. Teaching in the older days barely required any university and now you need years.

Question 3

What is the difference between Educational Attainment and Education; Achievement ?

Answer 3

Attainment is just knowing the bare minimum and wanting to know what’s on the test and needing a credential. Achievement is retaining information and learning, while investing yourself into the material.

Question 4

Explain why younger women are more educated than older women?

Answer 4

Each year women education is increasing. In the older days women were not required to work because one income could support a whole family, but now that is not the case. women must work and women go to school and post secondary education. that was not the case in older generations.

Question 5

explain some continuing gendered trends

Answer 5

the pay gap is still prominent within the workforce, even men and women with the same level of education. There are still traditional gender divisions in the way that genders are treated and interacted with in institutions

Question 6

Mcdonalization in education (5)

Answer 6

1. efficiency
2. calculability
3. predictability
4. control by means of technology
5. Irrationality of Rationality

Question 7

Explain efficiency in McDonaldization

Answer 7

Universities for example thinking about the amount of students they can bring in, not about the quality of students. they just want to bring in as many people as possible

Question 8

Explain Calculability in McDonaldization

Answer 8

Its all about grades, not about the experience or somebody as a person

Question 9

Explain predictability in McDonaldization

Answer 9

This explains how we all know what we’re learning. we are given a syllabus and it is the same credits no matter where you learn from

Question 10

Explain Control by means of technology in McDonaldization

Answer 10

Example - student numbers instead of names

Question 11

Functionalist approach?

Answer 11

through education we are learning our place in society
can help sort out individuals
need people doing the bad jobs and the people doing the better jobs - institutions work

Question 12

education conflict theory?

Answer 12

there Is not equity for all in educational systems
all society wants is compliant workers
lots of inequalities to accessing education
ie. parent being able to pay for tutoring to help their kid

Question 13

education symbolic interactionism

Answer 13

interactions during schooling processes and what comes out of them
hidden curriculum