"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.
i dont find this to be true: for one, schools across the country do not have the same curriculum. There are differences even within states themselves. The difference between suburban and urban schools extends far past resources, and its reflected in drop-out rates and test scores. If they truly were the same apart from different resources, the test scores would be much closer and the drop-out rates wouldnt be influenced by a school system that cares more about preserving its own rather than helping students succeed to their best abilities. I dont feel that the way a person is brought up really makes or breaks their success in school. If a student is raised with little importance based on schooling, but has teachers who focus on what works best with the student and pushes them to succeed, i feel that student will succeed far more than a student without that teacher weither or not school is viewed as important in the family life. I feel that students success is determined more by the school system, the teachers, the curriculum, and the administrators which is why the resource difference between urban and suburban schools has such an impact.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a good debate, that being the one between whether there is such a drive as the one labeled "human nature" there is an excellent book called "the Chomsky Foucault debate" and it addresses this very topic, whether we are in fact a tabla rasa or have some ingrained drive towards certain instincts. The other thing you bring that I highly recommend you look into the the observer-actor bias in psychology. In essence it states that as an observer looking at an actor in a certain situation we explain the actions the actor takes based on their personal attributes but when we are ourselves the actors we label the situational factors as having the strongest effect on our actions. So this leads into the question, does the students personal attributes have as strong an effect as the situation (social class setting) or is it the situation, the environment we are in that molds the student the most.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you and also the two people above you say..I do think people need to find a certain drive in them in order to avoid outside sources trying to bring them down but also they need to find a motivation to find this drive and when they are learning things in school that are completly unrelated to anything they deal with in real life, school becomes meaningless and unimportant and even if they have that drive, it lays dormant because it is shadowed by other more important issues to the student.
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