SOCI 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: School Choice, Corporatization, Human Capital
Document Summary
Post-war period (1940s-1970s: expansion of post secondary education, transition from elite to mass higher education, educational stratification and inequality. Demands for educational reform: liberal and human capital ideology ofreform, hall dennis report. Structure of canadian education systems: organizational structure, levels of education, debates over funding for religious schools, federal support, involvement and funding of pse. Market-based educational reforms: neoliberalism, accountability movement, private education (pse, corporatization of the university, private education (primary, secondary) Debates over public schooling: school choice, charter schools, the new right. Post-war period (1940a-1970s: second world war was a fundamental turning point highest demand for governmental involvement in the well-being of citizens was catalyzed, up to that point all universities were religious and elite. Major transformation happened when there was the switch in a more broader post- secondary education: welfare state: the idea that there should be a system of social rights. This is when canada got unemployment insurance and health care education.
