Set: Issues in Education

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cultural transmission It imparts values, beliefs and knowledge considered essential to the social reproduction of individuals and entire cultures
preliterate societies with informal education
literate societies with formal education
Japan unified, centralized, conformity, obedience, nationalism, high stress/success environment, very little gender equality
Bosnia divided along ethnic lines; different curriculum, language, history, etc., very decentralized
US varies greatly from region, state, city, and neighborhood
Functionalist, Conflict, symbolic interaction Sociological Perspectives on Education
Functionalist Education is a key component of society
socialization, culture transmission, social control, social placement, change and innovation 5 manifest functions in Functionalist perspective
functionalist 5 manifest and 3 latent functions of education
Low academic demands Educational dysfunction (functionalist)
Conflict School perpetuates class, gender and racial inequalities, as some groups seek to maintain their privileged positions at others expense
Class reproduction school mirrors and reinforces class divisions (conflict)
Cultural capital for success in school, kids need certain forms of this in order to succeed (values, beliefs, attitudes, culture, language skills); wealthier children have more of the right kind than poorer ones (conflict)
Tracking assigning students at early ages into courses or programs based on test scores, academic “ability”, or behavior; this has a great impact on student academic achievement and career choice (conflict)
Hidden curriculum the transmission of certain cultural values and attitudes, like obedience to authority figures, through implied demands found in rules, routines, and regulations (conflict)
Credentialism process of social and educational selection in which class advantage and social status are “linked” to the possession of academic “qualification” (conflict)
Symbolic Interaction Labeling and the self-fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfilling prophecy an unsubstantiated belief or prediction that results in behavior that makes the original false belied come true
Labeling testing as resulted in the “labeling” of students; a self-fulfilling prophecy can result (“I only scored a such and such on this test, so I must be dumb”); the opposite can be true as well
hard work, ability reason for girls success, reason for boys success
lack of ability, lack of effort reason for girls/boys failure failure
90 % of students are in public schools
9 % are in low-tuition private schools (ex. Catholic)
1 % are in high-tuition private schools
5000 over _____ teachers are assaulted a month in US
Hispanic/Latino Highest dropout rate among ________ students
lack of interest, personal/family issues, grades, substance abuse Most common reasons for dropping out
general equivalent diploma GED
Functional illiteracy inability to read and write at the skill level necessary for carrying out quality everyday tasks
56 % of illiterate Hispanic students
44 % of illiterate African Americans
16 % of illiterate White
Social promotion promoting a student to the next grade even though they have not passed the academic standards
The Achievement Gap Differentiation between white and minority student academic achievement increases with every year of school
1968 Not until ____ did Congress mandate that schools provide some sort of transitional bilingual instruction
transitional bilingual instruction TBE

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iveyle : Changed literate → societies with informal education to literate → societies with formal education
iveyle : Changed Functionalist, Conflict, symbolic-interaction → Sociological Perspectives on Education to Functionalist, Conflict, symbolic interaction → Sociological Perspectives on Education
iveyle : Changed Conflict perspective → School perpetuates class, gender and racial inequalities, as some groups seek to maintain their privileged positions at others expense to Conflict → School perpetuates class, gender and racial inequalities, as some groups seek to maintain their privileged positions at others expense
iveyle : Changed genereal equivalent diploma → GED to general equivalent diploma → GED
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