SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Hidden Curriculum, Neoliberalism
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Soca02- lecture 5 class bias of the hidden curriculum focus on intellectual rather than manual work. Values of self-discipline, orderliness, cooperation with authority, independence, motivation, symbolic rewards. Occupational groups professionalize to elevate their status and eliminate competition credentialization: Problem for workforce: underemployment affects 2/3 of new graduates credential inflation: Social benefit: deflated unemployment (20% of canadians are full-time students) commercialization of education: Decreased public funding strengthens inequality of access, achievement, and attainment. Direct corporate influence on curricula (training and not education) and research (natural and not social/humanistic- critical, applied, and not fundamental) Evaluation of education by criteria of neo-liberal ideology (education is not regarded as a common good, an intrinsic value) Direct corporate profit from sales to educational institutions and captive audiences of students liberal ideology: emphasis on individual rights and freedoms, equality of opportunity (not outcome) as central goal; distinct from neo-liberal ideology. Deep and narrow specialist knowledge causes increased general ignorance.
