Lecture 1
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Hiiden curriculum
- Oakes, Rist, Rosenthal & Jacobsen = processes?
-social mechanisms
- answer all the questions
- word count on the front
- expectations go up
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You don’t need to use outside sources
- cite lecture notes (enns lecture notes, fall, 2016)
- bibliography (socioology 1121, 003, Sandra Enns, Fall 2016, Langara College)
- 1,200, double spaced, 12 fonts, word count (front page)
- uploaded, don’t email
- Monday December 12, 4:00
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PDF OR WORD FORMAT (PDF is better)
- december 19th for marks
Education
- NorthAmerica is spoiled - free
- many children in third world countries aren’t able to go to school
- 1/3 children don’t go to High school = 1/3rd of the world has a grade 7 education
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2/3rd of illiterate people are women - if you can only sen one child to school, the male is sent
- Quebec and Maritimes are both reliant on industries, Quebec with agriculture and Maritimes with
fishing, and have the lowest amount of people educated in Canada
- “No child left behind” - kids are not being failed. Kids are not being held back.
-“We don’t want them to see themselves as failures”
-“We don’t want them to be psychologically damaged”
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Kids are being pushed onto the next level without the necessary requirements
-parents don’t want their kids to be left behind, teachers don’t want to deal with this kids
-They should be passed on when they are ready, not just with the class
- thereARE kids who have been held back
- More-so in elementary school than high school
- ESL
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ESL - many kids who move to Canada, even if they speak English, go through years of
ESL
-EvenAboriginal children - who are from here - have to go to ESL for years
-Of course, there’s no simple examination that could
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