SOC 3340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Numeracy, Knowledge Economy, Human Capital
4 Nov 2013
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Chapter 4 education revolutionized: the growth of modern schooling. Prior to 16th century europe most school was church based. For centuries academic learned was the preserve of the clergy. School class: constituent cell of the school system. Most student sin a class are the same age. Classes are organized progressively by knowledge level. A class is often set off by a particular time period. School class was first organized by level of knowledge (16th century) Students of varying ages meet in one large room, drilled with the basics. Once elementary material mastered students progress to higher knowledge levels, still in a single room. School classes had come into existence to separate students according to their capacities and the difficulty of the subject-matter, not to separate students according to their ages. Schools classes were initially organized by ability, not age. The ages of students ay any grade level typically span only 2 years, and most are within months of each other.
