CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Millennium Development Goals, Neoliberalism, Imagined Communities
1 Apr 2017
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Chys 2p38- education as a facet of globalization. Structural functionist theory- school has manifest and latent functions. Manifest functions include cognitive learning, selection and allocation of skills, cultural reproduction. Latent functions include custodial control of children and employment replacement. Wells- children are either in school, at work, both or neither. Assumption that expanding school attendance is key to economic development. Wells- school expansion follows crises because they produce a governing class . Expansion of asian tiger education occurred during the cold war. People and their capacities are a form of capital that must be invested in. Investments include health care, nutrition, education and skills training. Investments are not made equitably; governments target worthy populations (safe investments) Despite rhetoric equality of opportunity, education is structured by class. Wells- education in much of the world is on a western model, introduced in the colonial era. Both government schools and (more commonly) religious schools are supported by the government.
