Chapter 12

Question 1

Formal education

Answer 1

Regulated by the state

Question 2

Information education

Answer 2

Stresses norms and values

Question 3

Residential schools

Answer 3

• Earliest form of formal education
• Make indigenous people ‘civilized’

Question 4

Origins of Education

Answer 4

Mass education
- Education started because it is viewed as essential
- girls and boys educated differently

Question 5

Current Education rates

Answer 5

more highschool/post secondary participation
Women account for 56.8 of undergraduates

Question 6

Underemployed

Answer 6

Have more schooling than they need for their job

Question 7

Functionalism - Education

Answer 7

Schools help maintain balance of social system

Question 8

Symbolic Interactionism - Education

Answer 8

Whats attached to school practices

Question 9

Conflict theory - Education

Answer 9

Schooling serves the capitalist aims of profit and compliant workers

Question 10

Early feminist - education

Answer 10

Focused on the sexism embedded in both school texts and classroom practice

Question 11

contemporary feminist - education

Answer 11

Continue to focus on gendered patterns of interaction

Question 12

Anti-racist - education

Answer 12

Race and racism are central to how we claim, occupy and defend spaces

Question 13

Bourdieu

Answer 13

Schools reproduce existing power relations; they are not value neutral

Question 14

Post-structural theory - education

Answer 14

Cannot separate knowledge from the context in which it is produced

Question 15

Issues in education

Answer 15

Government funding declined dramatically
Higher fees
Quantitative assessments over quality

Question 16

McDonalization

Answer 16

Universities are expected to function in ever more
efficient ways with bigger class size and few teachers/funding

Question 17

Academic integrity

Answer 17

Most students cheat
Teachers that catch cheating do nothing about it