SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hidden Curriculum, Critical Pedagogy, Social Stigma
12 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Education
Lecture 4
Defining Education
“Education is generally understood as the formal learning that takes place in institutions
such as schools, colleges, universities, and other sites that provide specific courses,
learning activities, or credentials in an organized way” (Wotherspoon 2008, p. 246).
Education & Functionalism
SOCIALIZATION
commitments
capacities
ALLOCATION
Sorting of people into jobs
Educate to fit future needs of the society
Education & Conflict Theory
Education serves to produce docile, compliant future labourers
Education as ideological
Education reproduces class divisions
Education and Culture Theory
Critical pedagogy: understand how education reproduces broader power relationships.
Hidden curriculum: “the unwritten purposes or goals of school life” (Wotherspoon, p.
263).
Silencing
Banking model
Gendered, racialized, classed
Tracking/ Streaming
Leads to a “cumulative advantage”
Reinforces advantages of children from higher S.E.S background
Symbolic interaction&
Labelling Theory
Interested in social roles (functionalist perspective) and social stigma (Goffman)
For deviants & criminals, the deviant behaviour becomes the “master status”: the
identifying factor of the individual that the individual is known for.
Students become labelled by teachers and this labelling affects their academic success.
Knowledge, values, skills
Racialization and school
opening of Africentric Public School, Toronto, 2009
→ racialization in school system:
Stereotyping racialized students,
Low expectations for Black students
Non-diverse curriculum
Non-diverse faculty
Schools-to-prison hypothesis
Fallacy of “zero tolerance” policies
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Document Summary
Education is generally understood as the formal learning that takes place in institutions such as schools, colleges, universities, and other sites that provide specific courses, learning activities, or credentials in an organized way (wotherspoon 2008, p. 246). Educate to fit future needs of the society. Education serves to produce docile, compliant future labourers. Critical pedagogy: understand how education reproduces broader power relationships. Hidden curriculum: the unwritten purposes or goals of school life (wotherspoon, p. Reinforces advantages of children from higher s. e. s background. Interested in social roles (functionalist perspective) and social stigma (goffman) For deviants & criminals, the deviant behaviour becomes the master status : the identifying factor of the individual that the individual is known for. Students become labelled by teachers and this labelling affects their academic success. Opening of africentric public school, toronto, 2009. Higher rates of expulsion and suspension in poorer neighbourhoods. Highlights the role of social resources for negotiating school and the legal system.
