SOC224H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: System Model, Human Capital, Unbridled
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Teachers used to discourage students who were different or. However, since the 1960s, it is frowned upon. Policy makers now expect schools to retain as many youths for as long as possible: pervasive understanding of the economic utility of schooling. Human capital theorist urged policy makers to recognize school"s role in the production of marketable skills. Before schools were required to limit the number of graduates because of the static economy. But now, schools have to produce greater numbers of graduate for the changing economy. Human capital is to have a power that can unleash a unbridled expansion of economic potential, driving from mass to universal ps systems. Policy makers encourage post secondary institutions to enrol more diverse students: robust notion of education equity. Schooling has been declared as human right and everyone is educable and deserving of a academic instructions regardless of their social origins and capacities. More children are capable of benefitting from schooling.
