Midterm Notes Week 7 PDF

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Executive Elite Parental income of the top 1% Multinational corporations/ Wall Street

Affluent Professional Income top 10% Doctors, TV, advertising executives

Excellence: prepare to be the best, top quality performance Half said yes/no. Knowledge comes from tradition, it is out there and you are expected to learn it.

Individualism: with a minor theme of humanitarianism least trouble answering question what is knowledge; used the word think and several alluded to personal activity having to do with ideas;16 people said you can make knowledge and 4 said no.

Point of School

To achieve, excel, prepare for life at the top

To think for oneself, creativity, and discovery in science and arithmetic. (theme?)

Pace

Fast, children responsible for keeping up with work

students asked for more time on a topic

Teachers think it is important to keep students busy

Power

Students in charge of school; Children planned lessons and taught them to the class, evaluated how the class was maintained; students had higher social

Constant negotiation; teachers barely gave direct order unless kinds noisy

Teacher’s controlling student’s movement; keeping children after bell to finish work or as a punishment, no

Wealth

Theme

Can you make Knowledge?

Middle Class Working Class highly skilled, 1/3 skilled blue well-paid color workers, ½ blue/white color unskilled or workers; teachers, semiskilled bluesocial workers, color workers, accountants, 15%of the heads middle managers of households were unemployed Possibility Resistance

Knowledge to students is: learn, remember, facts, study, smartness, intelligent, know, school, study and brains; 9 said NO, 11 said YES but looking it up or listening and do what is told or go to the library Children were schooled to take orders; gaining information and understanding from socially approved sources than a matter of isolated facts; getting the right answer: words, sentences, numbers, facts, and dates

Students didn’t answer what comes to mind of the word knowledge using the word think; someone used mind 1person said you can make knowledge knowledge was just dispersed rather than unifying all the information; how to follow directions and do mechanical, lowpaying work but at the same time they were learning to resist authority.

status than teachers

clocks, material handed out, sit in seats unless received permission

Relationship to economy, authority, work

Different from all the other schools

Appropriate for artists, intellectuals, legal and scientific experts

Material

Academic, intellectual, rigorous; More was taught, different concepts, reasoning, problem solving

Learning to create products and art; Work not mechanical and repetitious; Knowledge was open to discovery

ELA

Learned grammar, mathematics, vocabulary

no textbooks because principal thought textbooks hindered creativity; lessons on punctuation stressed the relationship between meaning and punctuation

Social Studies Sophisticated, complex, analytical

less discussion of controversial topics: labor disputes, civil rights, and women’s rights; less attention to the history of these issues.

For white-color working-class and middle-class jobs: paper work, technical work, sales, social services No excitement in the school work, and assignments did not take into consideration the interests or feelings of students; no creativity

students find information on topics, then put it in their own words, graded on success in paraphrasing the

knowledge in textbooks was more valuable than their own experience. They were taught through traditional, directive methods to look up knowledge, not to create it; no any effort to connect school knowledge with their daily lives. Wrote autobiographies, were told where to put commas but no reasoning behind commas as to how it made writing easier to understand or of the notion that punctuations called for decisions based on the intended meaning textbook used was described by publisher as for low ability students, guide was educationally deficient students;

sources used.

Teachers

Women married to high professionals and business executives

From else-where in the state; middle or upper class backgrounds; married to high professionals or executives

Freedom

No need to wait for bell, take materials from teacher’s desks, in charge of school office during lunch, no pass to leave the room Rude, flippant, boisterous

No passes to leave the room.

Students

Student, teacher respect and relationship;

copying teacher’s notes, writing answers to textbook questions, and craft projects 1/3 of the teachers Teachers think students are lazy; grew up in the students need to neighborhood of learn basic simple the school; thought that their skills The principal and job was to teach teacher’s don’t the knowledge have high hopes found in for the students textbooks or they teach. “Just dictated by do your best. If curriculum they learn to add experts which valued more than and subtract, that is a bonus. If not, teaching through don’t worry about experience it.”

Saw the knowledge that teachers had to offer as valuable – albeit for future, for entrance into good colleges, and to get high paid work. Valued the teacher’s knowledge, they cooperated with the teachers to get it.

vandalized school property, resisted the teacher’s efforts to teach; could have cared less; boys fell out of chairs, brought bugs to school and released them, losing books or forgot them, interrupting teachers, no enthusiasm for projects, pleased when teacher got mad

The Study: - 5 schools in northern NJ - Compared 2 working schools, 1 middle class school, an upper middle class school, elite school - Found a connection between the social class of the students, the type of education they receive in school, type of work that they are prepared to do - LOOKING at schooling through SOCIOLOGY lens: the study of society, involving the study of social lives, the study of social aggregations, the entities through which humans move through their lives Similarities - Race was white - Subject to the same state requirements - Used the same arithmetic books - A dominant theme in each category of school. Meritocracy: society reward (by wealth, position, and social status) those who demonstrated talent and competence, demonstrated through past actions or by competition. Factors that determine wealth: - Parent’s education - Parent’s occupation - Family wealth Interview Questions: Where do you live? Where do you get education? Married or single?...