SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Hidden Curriculum, Meritocracy, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
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People acquired knowledge and skills through informal education learning that occurs in a spontaneous, unplanned way from parents and other group members. Formal education is learning that takes place within an academic setting, such as a school, that has a planned instructional process and teachers who convey specific knowledge, skills, and thinking processes to students. Education system has displaced organized religion as main purveyor of formal knowledge. Education system also is second in importance only to the family as agent of socialization. Universal mass education is recent phenomenon and is limited to relatively wealthy countries. 1950: only 10% of world"s countries had system of compulsory mass education. Today: half of citizens in developing countries are illiterate, while in canada, education is nearly universal. Although access to higher education remains uneven, canadian accomplishment in education is impressive when compared with that of other countries. Canadian students rank 4th out of 65 countries in reading, mathematics, and science.
