EDUC 1F95 Study Guide - Final Guide: Critical Pedagogy, Reinforcement, Cultural Literacy
29 Mar 2016
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Based on time and motion studies by engineers. Takes the joy out of the job. Not a form of empowerment but dehumanization instead. Work is boring and repetitive and therefore unrewarding. Become lost in the gears of society. We have to act like machines in order to survive in society. Makes schools like factories in their structure, organization, and culture. Makes the content of the curriculum and the aims of education aligned with the industry and business. Teacher is always higher up than the students. Teach students the skills they need to work on in life. Schools are training these students to be workers. Prepare students to be docile, work according to daily schedules, follow orders, and respect authority. Content of what"s learned was less important than daily procedures. A social economic system built on manufacturing industries. Hard for standardize testing because you would want the highest possible test scores.
