Social class is a major determining factor of accomplishment in most educational, employment and social arenas. Social class is currently still one of the best predictors of who will achieve success, prosperity and social status, yet class is difficult to define and discern/distinguish. We examine it empirically only through its consequences our outcome.
Education closely influences personal and social development in the technical, economic spheres, and wider political arenas of emancipation and democracy. Education also affects how people experience social, cultural, and economic forces; and it shapes abilities and disposition towards their transformation. Because of this education has always represented a site of struggle between those with the power to define what constitutes legitimate …show more content…
The societies we live in, the relationship we have and create with other people, the ways we accommodate or resist unfairness and oppression, and the ways we choose to think about these phenomena are both limited and enabled by our place in the economic structure of society. In any level (individual, community, and societal) whether we like it or not, all are influenced by our place in an economic and social order. So education is shaped by cultural and economic influences (Althusser & Gramsci, 1971).
Education also shapes how we experience social, cultural, and economic forces. It’s through educational that we first come to understand the structure of society and the ways that power relations permeate them. Educational systems are thus one of the most important vehicles for hegemony, the process by which a society inculcates and maintains dominant ideas by portraying as natural and normal.
As Habermas (1972) indicated, Adult education is a moral and political endeavor as much as it is a technical practice. Thus it is affected by its role in maintaining or challenging the social
Education closely influences personal and social development in the technical, economic spheres, and wider political arenas of emancipation and democracy. Education also affects how people experience social, cultural, and economic forces; and it shapes abilities and disposition towards their transformation. Because of this education has always represented a site of struggle between those with the power to define what constitutes legitimate …show more content…
The societies we live in, the relationship we have and create with other people, the ways we accommodate or resist unfairness and oppression, and the ways we choose to think about these phenomena are both limited and enabled by our place in the economic structure of society. In any level (individual, community, and societal) whether we like it or not, all are influenced by our place in an economic and social order. So education is shaped by cultural and economic influences (Althusser & Gramsci, 1971).
Education also shapes how we experience social, cultural, and economic forces. It’s through educational that we first come to understand the structure of society and the ways that power relations permeate them. Educational systems are thus one of the most important vehicles for hegemony, the process by which a society inculcates and maintains dominant ideas by portraying as natural and normal.
As Habermas (1972) indicated, Adult education is a moral and political endeavor as much as it is a technical practice. Thus it is affected by its role in maintaining or challenging the social