Life In Schools Part Two Analysis

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on the table is dissimilar to a comprehensible argument. Again, it is impossible to resolve ideological differences especially when put in the right organizational framework. Fourthly, a dialectical tactic to comprehending the world is vital; learners need to acquire knowledge and skills on how social relations especially in a capitalist society are dialectically or internally connected. Fifthly, school teachers require methodological approaches that assist them rebuild the historical and social conditions contiguous to the production, movement, and response of symbolic forms. The sixth point is related to a contracted attention on social inequality and stratification which leads to relinquishment of working-class struggle, in this context, …show more content…
The entries here are clear and very easy to read. They intensely document the mounting frustration of this young teacher with school system that did not accommodate the interests of his immigrant, low-income and minority language learners. The stories chronicle his cynicism with an equality myth, his understanding that school is an extra agent of oppression as opposed to being a friend of the learners ensnared in poverty; and his willpower to contest the school’s role in propagating social injustice in the society. They again raise superior questions related to how prepared the teachers are to deal with low-income and immigrant children in schools …show more content…
He examines some of the concerns of neoliberalism for schools. Neoliberalism usually refers to a corporate supremacy of society that backs government regulation of the free market, involves in the subjugation of anti-market policies and non-market forces, eradicates social subsidies, gives limitless concessions to multinational companies, consecrates a neo-mercantilist public policy program, controls the market as the benefactor of education reforms, and allows private interests to regulate most of social life in the hunt of profits for the few individuals (that is, by dropping taxes for the affluent/rich, doing away with the environmental regulations, and ripping to shreds social welfare programs and public

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