Politics of Education

Question 1

What does school make u do that u would not normally do?

Answer 1

Alter behaviour
A has power over B to the extent that he can B to do something that B would not otherwise do

Question 2

What are 3 things bulying can do?

Answer 2

Compel behaviour - compel behaviour & influence after the decisions they make

Set the agenda - control what people think & make decisions

Impart desire - shape how people make decisions & what they want

Question 3

Is school political by nature?

Answer 3

For a long time, process of schooling and research on that process were thought of as above or beyond politics
(bellamy salute)

Question 4

What is included in the education act?

Answer 4

Compulsory attendance (until 18 years)
Habitually absent from school (unless 16+)
Parents (have to make kids under 16 attend)
Employment during school hours (can’t hire kids under 16 during school hours)

Question 5

What is not included in the education act?

Answer 5

use of force

Question 6

What does section 43 of the Canadian Criminal Code say about punishing students?

Answer 6

schoolteacher, parent guardian is justified in using force by way of
correction toward a pupil or child, as the case may be,
who is under his care, if the force does not exceed
what is reasonable under the circumstances

Question 7

What was the major problem facing prisons, factories, hospitals and schools?

Answer 7

how to manage a lot of people in relatively limited spaces so that productivity was maximized and threats to the organizers’ control was minimized

Question 8

What is panoptican of the structural power?

Answer 8

Panoptical effect - is to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and & permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power

Question 9

What is the perfect disciplinary apparatus under structural power?

Answer 9

perfect disciplinary apparatus would make it possible for a single gaze to see everything constantly

Question 10

What is the surveillance regarding structural power?

Answer 10

Surveillance is hierarchical, enabling teachers constantly
to observe student activity and administrators to observe teachers

Question 11

What are some examples of structural power?

Answer 11

• students separated from the outside world by a wall or fence
• students partitioned into manageable groups - maximize surveillance
  -classroom situated to minimize communication between teachers and student
  -allows the teacher to dictate the pace and order of student activity
• Activity is meticulously mapped out …Time is meticulously broken down, no student is allowed to be idle

Question 12

How is disicpline shown in schools?

Answer 12

classes have a set of rules
- attend class regularly, specific time
- not disrupt things in class
- school discipline will put discipline in the child

Question 13

What is right answering?

Answer 13

Students often try to guess what the teacher wants
them to say, in a process

Question 14

what are the implicit in right answering?

Answer 14

1. The passive acceptance of ideas.
2. Prioritizing recall as the main education activity.
3. Acceptance of authority over independent judgment
4. Belief in an absolute and unambiguous answers

Question 15

what is agenda setting?

Answer 15

setting a specific curriculum for each grade level class

Question 16

what is the Conflicting theory?

Answer 16

Conflict theory claims that schooling perpetuates inequality in society, favouring the dominant group. Its key success is in creating acceptance of exiting power structures

Question 17

how does school produce inequality?

Answer 17

students from diverse backgrounds become homogenized to a:
Hidden curriculum, Dominant culture, and Elite goals

schls are socialization agencies that teach children how to serve others & prepare them for adult economic roles

Question 18

what is the banking system?

Answer 18

teacher teaches, students are taught
teacher knows everything, student knows nothing

Question 19

what is battleground?

Answer 19

what should be taught and be in the curriculum at each grade

Question 20

what is content control?

Answer 20

lack of teaching about darker skin in medicine
- this in adequately train doctors to care for all patient groups
- disadvantages some students

Question 21

What is the Coleman report (Equality of educational opportunity report)?

Answer 21

2 years
explored lack of availability of equal educational opportunities” for minority children

Expected to Wind that a lack of resources (quality teachers, textbooks, and adequate facilities etc.) deprived poor and minority
students of a quality education.

Question 22

what did the Coleman report find?

Answer 22

Family backgrounds had a greater inWluence on student
achievement than did school resources

Achievement was strongly related to the educational
backgrounds and aspirations of other students in school

Question 23

what did the coleman report find in white and black people?

Answer 23

• no significant effects of desegration exosure on mobility outcomes on white
• Desegregation produced an immediate jump in
  mobility prospects for black students

Question 24

what was the National Defence Education Act?

Answer 24

increased funding for education at all levels, including low-interest
student loans to college students, with the focus on scientific and
technical education.

Question 25

what is the concept of subverstion?

Answer 25

establishment has been suspicious of teachers who can be seen as potential revolutionaries and in a position to influence the vulnerable young