SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hidden Curriculum, Critical Pedagogy, Social Stigma
SOCI 1002
Defining education
➢ Generally understood as the formal learning that takes place in institutions such as
schools, colleges, universities and other sites that provide specific courses, learning
activities or credentials in an organized way
Education and functionalism
Socialization
➢ Commitments
o Waiting in line
o Putting up your hand
o Standing for Oh Canada
➢ Capacities
o Skills
o Learned to share
o Lear your ABC’s
Allocation
➢ Sorting of people into jobs
o Stream people
➢ Educate to fit future needs of the society
o Do’t all agree o coitets/capacities
Education and conflict theory
➢ Education serves to produce docile, compliant future labourers
➢ Education as ideological
➢ Education reproduces class divisions
Education and culture theory
Critical pedagogy: understand how education reproduces broader power relationships
Hidden curriculum: the uritte purposes or goals of school life
➢ Silencing
➢ Banking model
o Teachers have the knowledge and students are empty and just dump stuff in
o Works with the silencing model to produce the idea of power and authority
➢ Gendered, racialized, classed
o Process and decision making in higher class schools
Tracking/streaming
➢ Leads to a cuulatie adatage
➢ Reinforces advantages of children from higher S.E.S background
Symbolic interaction and labelling theory
➢ Interested in social roles (functionalist perspective) and social stigma (Goffman)
➢ For deviants and criminals, the deviant behavior becomes the master status; the
identifying factor of the individual that the individual is known for
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Generally understood as the formal learning that takes place in institutions such as schools, colleges, universities and other sites that provide specific courses, learning activities or credentials in an organized way. Commitments: waiting in line, putting up your hand, standing for oh canada. Capacities: skills, learned to share, lear(cid:374) your abc"s. Sorting of people into jobs: stream people. Educate to fit future needs of the society: do(cid:374)"t all agree o(cid:374) co(cid:373)(cid:373)it(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts/capacities. Education serves to produce docile, compliant future labourers. Critical pedagogy: understand how education reproduces broader power relationships. Hidden curriculum: (cid:862)the u(cid:374)(cid:449)ritte(cid:374) purposes or goals of school life(cid:863) Banking model: teachers have the knowledge and students are empty and just dump stuff in, works with the silencing model to produce the idea of power and authority. Gendered, racialized, classed: process and decision making in higher class schools. Reinforces advantages of children from higher s. e. s background. Interested in social roles (functionalist perspective) and social stigma (goffman)