SCLG1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cumulative Learning, Truancy, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SCLG1001
• Professor: Robert van Krieken

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This week you will be able to: explain why education and knowledge are important sociological topics. Located in the week 10 content folder: reading. Located in week 10 content folder on blackboard. Must be completed by 10:00am monday 9 may: define/take notes on these key concepts/terms. Liberal humanism and the formation of modern education. Battles fought over school curricula by politicians and decision makers highlights the social, political and economic significance of education. Education accounts for a big proportion of government spending and forming a large workforce. Critics contend that the main roel of education in a cpaitalist society is the creation and maintance of an efficient and malleable workforce. Prior to the mid-19th century, informal learning was practised by voluntary groups, often church organisations. Legislation such as the public instruction act 1880 (nsw) gradually led to the creation of a secular and public primary school system. - educating an urban working class.