Talking Points #9 Citizenship in school- Christopher Kliewer

1)"Education is considered a dual process of group and individual transformation through which children 1) establish together a unique  community in thoughtfully planned activities, projects, experiences problems 2) support one another's membership in that community."

  This quotes makes me think of the movie that we are watching in class which is Freedom Writers. The children all become close to one another, and start getting involved in the community. They planned activities and got the lady who hid Anne Frank to go their school. Everyone in that class had problems, whether it had to do in being in gangs and fighting. The teacher made them get that idea out of the students head, and introduced them to the Holocaust, to see what other people went through. The guest speakers really touched the students, and changed them into more respectable people.

2) Community requires a willingness to see people as they are different perhaps in their minds and in their bodies, but not different in their splits or in their willingness and ability to contribute to the mosaic of society."

Everybody is different, and that's why the community wants to see them for who they are and not for anything else. They want people to accept them in the community for what that individual person is. They do not want to be judged, they just want to fit in. It's good for people to be different, and for people having their own type of personality. 

Talking Points #8: Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work

"Scholars in political economy and the sociology of knowledge have recently argued that public schools in complex industrial societies like our own make available different types of educational experience and curriculum knowledge to students in different social classes"
 I agree and disagree with this quote. I believe that no matter which class a student is in, they still learn the same education as from the upper class. The schooling is probably different because the higher class may have different materials and better textbooks than the lower class. The only difference is that higher class schools have more textbooks and more materials to learn, then from a lower or middle class school.


"The foregoing analysis of differences in schoolwork in contrasting social class contexts suggests the following conclusion: the "hidden curriculum" of schoolwork is tacit preparation for relating to the process of production in a particular way. Differing curricular, pedagogical, and pupil evaluation practices emphasize different cognitive and behavioral skills in each social setting and thus contribute to the development in the children of certain potential relationships to physical and symbolic capital,¹¹ to authority, and to the process of work. School experience, in the sample of schools discussed here, differed qualitatively by social class."
 Every school has their own way of teaching a lesson. Every school is different in the way they teach, and every school has a different curriculum. The students still learn the same curriculum, in a different way or lesson plan. The way a person is brought up really makes up the way a child learns. It does not really depend on the type of class you are in. It honestly depends on the student itself.