SOC101 Lecture Notes - Richard Henry Pratt, Castillo De San Marcos, Correspondence Principle
20 Mar 2013
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Institution responsible for the transmission of knowledge, akills, values, and attitudes deemed desirable. Formal education regulated and organized by the state. Residential schools: earliest forms of formal education. Education and the state (aboriginal, indian residential schools in the u. s. and canada) Supplant the traditional mode of defining group members by genealogy (kinship) Disperse native populations as widely as possible. To kill the indian, save the man in every pupil. Pratt developed successful techniques for: ideological conversion , prison industries which would become profit making ventures, many american boarding schools were modeled after his prison concepts. Residential schools: earliest forms of formal education, re-socialize aboriginal people to become civilized. Industrialization and immigration: education viewed as essential to economic development, ontario first to offer free, compulsory education. Massification of higher education participation; expectation of higher education for everybody. High school diploma does not translate into the same kind of pay as it could a few decades ago.
