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