In the United States, the school serves as a primary institution in regards to the education and socialization of any given community’s children. Over the course of the nearly two-hundred-year history of public education in America, the school has come to replace other significant institutions, such as the church and family, in the daily lives of most students. Children between the ages of 7 and 18 spend a majority of their time in school learning content in addition to being socialized to fit within societal norms. Joel Spring’s Goals of Public Schooling, the introductory text to the course, provides historical insight into the development of the school’s role in society. From the era of Thomas Jefferson’s meritocracy ideology where school’s sole purpose was to enable children with basic skills to Edward Ross’ declaration of school being “a form of social control” a sense of societal liability has been bestowed upon schools.…
Born and raised in a small town, my classmates were my only friends. It was a middle- class school where teachers knew our name, our siblings, parents, and where we live. Never venturing out to other schools nearby, I had no recollection of other types of educational systems. Jean Anyon’s 1980 essay “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” helped me take notice to a problem in school curriculums. Anyon is effective in the way her essay can be interpreted but it has not made any difference in school programs.…
The Caton School is located in the Flatbush, Ditmas Park area in western Flatbush. The Caton School P.S 249 is a school in Brooklyn, New York, its population according to New York City Department of Education. With a gross enrollment of 894 students in the school year of 2015 to 2016, P.S 249, serves grades pre-kindergarten to fifth grade including special education classes. The student demographics consist of 6% Asian, 40% black, 49% Hispanic, and 4% percent white students. Thus, we may conclude that the majority of the population is of a minority background.…
Cash Rules Everything Around Me New Intro: “They say money is the root of all evil, but I money is the root of all people.” In Jean Anyon’s 1980 article, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” Jean realized that there was a very odd trend happening in the schools. She found that money ruled the system. I think that this is a very problemed system that needs a lot of fixing.…
Schools are very important for students. In school, we can learn a lot of things, but students need the right teachers and the material to be successful in life and for a better education. Jean Anyon in “Social Class and The Hidden Curriculum of Work” shows that in some schools they don’t have the right teachers or material because of the economy or the neighborhood the schools are located. Also low-income people do not get the same education as people with a good economy.…
Jean Anyon’s essay “Social Class and Hidden Curriculum of Work” is somewhat out dated in its examples; however the context of her writing is important to follow based upon how education is influenced by social class. [Heading 1] In her essay, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” of 1980, Dr. Jean Anyon attended five different social class…
Assignment 4 In Jean Anyon ’s essay “From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” she focuses on many schools whose curriculum have been carved out by social class. The lower the students families social class is the more repetitive and simple their curriculum will be, while on the other hand, the higher the social class is the more thought goes into the students coursework. Anyons basic point is that the work children are told and expected to do in school is the work that they will continue to do in their future jobs and careers. People, most often, do what they are taught to do.…
Rose is an intelligent student, but he did not want change the school and decided to stay. However, the incidence shows that the teachers in Rose’s school are not keen enough. Thus, the experiences that Rose passes through in the vocational program supports Anyon’s claims. As Anyon’s findings, socio-economic status of a community profoundly affects the design in which students are taught at school. Those who attend schools in communities with low socio-economic status get poor education compared to those students in communities with high socio-economic status.…
The American teenager is an individual created by growing multiple cultural changes in our society. In his book The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager, author Thomas Hine describes this stage of life as energetic and exciting, adding that teenagers carry qualities our culture simultaneously loves and fears, such as boldness, greed and being idealistic (Hine, p. 10-11). The behavior of teenagers is influenced by a multitude of factors. One of those factors includes social class, which can influence how teenagers socialize, as well as how they are treated in their education endeavors.…
Jean Anyon’s study questions and presents finding on the relationship between Social Class and School Knowledge. The study reveals the natural mechanism of upbringing, schooling and the status attached to these constructs, react to maintain varying levels or stratification of knowledge and double standard of living. These findings are a representation of Albert Bandura’s reciprocal determinism, which is based on the premise that a person’s behavior both influences and is influenced by personal factor and social factors. The students working-class parents were defined has as unskilled or semiskilled fathers who make an annual family income at or below $12,00o. The middle-class school consisted of parents who were high skilled and educated,…
In the essay Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work by Jean Anyon, she explores how different social classes influence education. She achieves this by observing five different 5th grade classrooms that she divided into the categories of “Working Class,” “Middle Class,” “Affluence Professional,” and “Executive Elite.” A “Working Class” school is a school that values order and gives the teacher complete control over the students. These classrooms mainly work on copying and rote memorization without knowing the ‘how’ or ‘why’ behind what they are asked to do. An “Executive Elite” school is a school that values analytical and comparative thinking and they work on analyzing things and applying or comparing them to current situations or scenarios.…
According to John Taylor Gatto, author of “Against Schools,” the public education system “cripples” the children of today. In the reading, Gatto claims that the public education system causes children to become bored with themselves, to obey the way of the school and its teachers, and lacks to teach them the ability to deal with issues that go on in the real world, outside of school. Moreover, Jean Anyon, author of “From Social Class and Hidden Curriculum of Work,” compares and contrasts the different social class school systems. This includes, working class, middle class, affluent professional, and executive elite. As Anyon goes into detail about the interactions in the classroom between the teachers and the students, it appears that the higher the social class, the better the education provided is.…
Have you ever thought what the differences are between Asia and America? Vietnam, which is the country in Asia, compared to United States, which located in America, are different in many aspects such as size, population, weather, economy and especially there is a gap between the public high school system in Vietnam and the system in the United States. The purpose of teaching everywhere is similar: to educate youth. However, there are many different aspects that make each of the systems special. Specifically, the public high school in Vietnam and the United States are unique in the schedule, organization, and rules in the high school system.…
There are two types of education formal and informal- both highly valuable when developing both knowledge and basic life skills. When distinguishing the difference between these types of education an example of viewing formal as travelling on a bus and informal as riding a bike (Growth Engineering, 2014) helps to develop a strong understanding of the two. Once you enter the formal bus you are limited to what you are able to do- you can exit at whichever bus stop, but ultimately the driver chooses the route you are to take and you have no control over that.…
My own practice is characterised by a mixture of all three theories, it depends which group I am teaching and what topic. To me, social construction is more practicable with top set. I can easily get them into dialogue and intervene accordingly. As I move down the set, I meet issues in the classroom like lack of motivation and other behavioural issues, which makes it unrealistic to engage students in dialogue. Lack of sufficient support either from within the department or senior leadership in dealing with misbehaving students is an obstacle that sometimes prevents myself from engaging good practices.…