SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Hidden Curriculum, Cultural Capital, High School Diploma
21 Aug 2013
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Education is responsible for transmission of particular knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes deemed desirable in a given society. Formal education tends to be regulated and organized. Informal involves learning activities that people seek outside of formal structure educational spaces. Residential schools: earliest forms of formal education by missionaries and religious orders, aboriginals practiced organic education: tailored to needs of families, clans and communities. Ensured children knew key knowledge, skills, traditions and values. Not permitted to speak in own language, seeing families and subject to harsh disciplinary measures: europeans wanted to assimilate aboriginal children into dominant economic and cultural system. Industrialization and immigration created need for education system that would educate masses: education was essential to canada"s economic development, boys and girls segregated within schools. Massification: mass increase in post secondary enrolment, in contrast to the smaller numbers that once constituted an elite group. High school diploma can"t garner same kind of paid job as before: minimum is an undergraduate degree.
