AUSOC 275 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Hegemonic Masculinity, Hidden Curriculum, British Subject
1 Oct 2018
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Gender structures formal education: who teaches us, what they teach us, how they teach us, and how the schools are organized as institutions. Hidden curriculum: our informal interactions with teachers and other students cause us to become gendered. School restricted to upper-class boys and men. Some religious and/or elite women became highly educated. Formal education expanded through the 19th century in canada. Canada"s rulers saw it as the best way to assimilate the diverse society into a nation. There was confusion over what girls should be learning: Ryerson argued girls should be educated in their proper sphere and not for paid work. Girls were discouraged from pursuing the difficult courses (such as one required for university admission) Imperial manhood: the idea that education played a major role in creating the ideal. Gendered classrooms begins in preschool and kindergarten through the segregation of toys by invisible, but real boundaries .
