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Changing Education Paradigms
--Ken RobinsonSlide4
Education as InstitutionSlide5
Education as Institution
Roles of our Education system:
Two primary roles
Socialization
S
ocial reproductionSlide6
Education as Institution
Socialization
Cultural transmission
Rules of appropriate behavior
Prepare students for future employment
Civic participation
The “Hidden Curriculum”Slide7
Education as Institution
The “Hidden Curriculum”
Behaviors and attitudes taught in schools that are not included within the formal curriculum
Teaches students:
Punctuality
Passive consumption of ideas
To obey authority
To accept existing social order and their place in it
E.g.,
tardies
, hall passes, completion points, doing what teachers assign, The Pledge of AllegianceSlide8
I pledge allegiance
t
o the flag
o
f The United States of America,
and to the republic for which it stands,
o
ne nation
(under God),
i
ndivisible,
w
ith liberty and justice for all.Slide9
Education as Institution
Social Reproduction
The ways social institutions help perpetuate social and economic characteristics (in many cases,
inequalities
) across generations
Applied to education, it represents the means whereby schools influence the learning of values, attitudes, habits and expectations within the “hidden curriculum.”Slide10
More on Social Reproduction
What are the chances you’ll someday have a college degree?
If your family income is over $90,000, chances are 1 in 2.
If your family income is between $35-61,000, chances are 1 in 10.
If your family income is less than $35,000, chances are 1 in 17.
This is an intersection between
the social institutions of
education and economy!Slide11
Educational Attainment in the US
Age 25 and Over (2012)
High school
graduate =
87.65
%
Some
college =
57.28%
Associate's and/or Bachelor's
degree =
40.58%
Bachelor's
degree =
30.94%Master's degree = 8.05%Doctorate or professional
degree = 3.07%Slide12Slide13
Bowles and
Gintis
:
Schooling in Capitalist America
Years of schooling and economic achievement are correlated; however, intelligence (I.Q.) is not.
You have equal likelihood of being “unintelligent” and rich as you do “unintelligent” and poor (same goes for being “smart”)
Increasing education does not appreciably raise cognitive skills or I.Q. (p.110-111)Slide14
Bowles and
Gintis
:
Schooling in Capitalist America
If
cognitive skills
do not explain the variation in economic success, what do
you
suppose does?Slide15
Bowles and
Gintis
:
Schooling in Capitalist America
Main findings of their study:
Dispute claims that education provides the cognitive skills that lead to economic success
Contend the education system serves to legitimate inequality in capitalist society
Argue that schools act as seemingly meritocratic mechanisms to assign individuals to unequal economic positions
In other words, schools sort us Slide16
You’re going
to design
your own
education system.