SOC224H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Progressive Education, Culture War, Hidden Curriculum
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Boost skills like debating, persuading, reasoning and critical thinking. Early views: children as sponges or vessels into which teachers could pour proper values: strict discipline and rote memorization stressed. Now: progressive education, make school more egalitarian, humanistic and child-centered. With students staying in schools for longer, tailor curriculum to wider variability secondary level of abilities/motivations: curriculum has become more diverse within broad subject categories. Modern curriculum involves a division of labour school deliver an increasingly rationalized and bureaucratic curriculum. Mid-1800s, school focused on the traditional trilogy (3rs) reading, riting, rithmetic. Benefits of blocking: provides teachers with a much easier sense of student mastery of subject material, promote specialized skills subject blocks are not all equally valued: stratification of knowledge. More rationalized form: types of evaluation, assessment, and testing functionalists and human capital theorists evaluations are needed to detect merit and ensure that the most able are allocated to the most demanding occupations.
