SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Privilege, Hegemonic Masculinity, Hidden Curriculum
29 Feb 2016
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Responsible for transmission of knowledge, skills, values, attitudes deemed desirable. Producing citizens in formal (regulated, organized by the state) and informal ways (learning activities outside formal education) contribute to social reproduction. Earliest forms of education: residential schools (19th century missionaries and religious orders) Before: aboriginals used organic education, no formal teachers, means of ensuring cultural survival. Europeans sought to replace aboriginal knowledge, thought children in need of help, took them from their families, couldn"t speak language, harsh punishment. Industrialization and immigration caused need for education system, essential economic development, people pay taxes toward education system, age raised 12 to 16 in 1919. Boys directed to vocational training, girls to domestic , they were completely segregated. Used to be a university degree=privileged elite group, significant rise, mastication: mass increase in post-secondary enrolment. High school diploma can no longer garner same kind of paid job as before. Canada"s highs school completion rates are good, high post-secondary attainment.
