SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Slow Learner, Hidden Curriculum, Talcott Parsons
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Education as a mean of producing good citizens. Formal education tends to be regulated and organized by the state whereas as informal education involves learning activities that people seek outside of formally structured educational spaces. Until the age 16 formal public schooling is compulsory end even question the need for formal education. In 19th century by missionaries and religious orders. Europeans did not like the practise that they wanted to get rid of those practise instill by aboriginal people and this colonizing attitudes paved for the residential schooling. 2008 stephen harper offered formal apology that stated they should not have separated them and asked for forgiveness from them. First province to offer free education and by early 1900s all children go to to tax-supported elementary. Basically with this what it means that with just high school diploma there is not much to do. 2010-2011 women account for 57% of full-time undergraduate students in canadian universities.
