EDUC 1F95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hidden Curriculum, Scientific Management
29 Jul 2018
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Efficiency, scientific management and industry: the mechanization of schooling. Influence of industrialism, business, engineering, etc on society. The school system we have today came into effect when factories were becoming more essential and numerous. Schools and factories were prevalent at the same time. Taylorism: scientific management, based on time and motion studies by engineers, taylor was concerned that humans were not good as the machines they were creating. He tried to make human beings behave more and more like a machine. His focus shifted from making the machine efficient to making humans more efficient. He was concerned with the impact of the advent of mass production on education. One of the things he did when observing people in factories he would break a process into distinct tasks: taylor contributed greatly to economic growth. Fordism: henry ford invented the assembly line.
