I have chosen to compare and contrast John Dewey and Nel Noddings views on their educational goals, a social justice curriculum, liberation education, issues of standardized testing and the effects on students and teachers. Dewey’s main educational goal is that education should have two sides: social and psychological. His evaluations are based on how the child interacts with society and how he/she contributes to the good of society. Dewey was the first one to say we need to look at the students to decide how to teach, a modern-day form of ‘differentiation’. He believed that all students should have the opportunity to take part in their own learning.
Some think it as promoting value consensus and some see otherwise. Functionalists believe that education transmits society's norms and values and therefore promotes value consensus, with the educational and economic system working hand in hand to develop the skills required for the world of work. Emile Durkheim provides the basic framework of the functionalists view on the education system, agreeing with its function of transmitting norms and values. He believed that for society to operate effectively they have to develop a sense of belonging to something, becoming 'social beings' with a loyalty and commitment to society as a whole. The education system creates this effectively by teaching subjects such as history, which enables children to see the link between themselves and wider society.
However, conformity teaches the students multiple subjects that would be useful in life and conformity also prepare the students for the outside world. Thesis Statement: Schools are required to enforce conformity because conformity is necessary to protect the students, to make them equal, and create well disciplined. Body Paragraph 1 Outline II. Conformity creates protection for the students through respect towards each other and they would protect physically and emotionally. A.
Many sociologists have given alternate views about the main function of education. Functionalists argue that the main function of education is to maintain a value consensus – agreed social values – whereas Marxists argue that education transmits values that benefit the ruling class. Durkheim (1903), a functionalist, argues that society needs a sense of social solidarity because without it, social life and cooperation would be impossible as individuals would pursue their own selfish desires. The education system helps create social solidarity by transmitting society’s culture from one generation to the next so the main function of education is to maintain a value consensus in society. However, Marxists criticise this and argue that education in capitalist society only transmits the ideology of the ruling class and not the shared values of society.
Bla** Sil**** Freire and Pratt’s Ultimate Individuality In the readings “The Banking Concept of Education” by Paolo Freire and “Arts of the Contact Zone” by Mary Louise Pratt, both authors bring forth the concept of the importance of individuality that is granted by the literate arts. The literate arts are important because in order for life to hold meaning there needs to be communication. Freire’s problem-posing education and Pratt’s contact zone education are very similar and both promote critical thinking and want to abolish the passive ways of the banking system. Students are now more conscious of their roles in the education system as the problem-posing and contact zone methods allow them to take on an even bigger role in their own education. In Freire’s and Pratt’s writings they share similar concepts about education through contact zones and problem-posing education, practices of each concept they have directly been apart of and criticism against the banking system which are having a huge impact on the modern education system today.
1. On what grounds have liberals supported democracy? Democracy is rule by the people. Its ‘liberal’ features are reflected in a network of internal and external checks on government in order to protect citizens against the state and guarantee liberty. Therefore, democracy in most of the western countries takes place through a system of regular and competitive elections, universal suffrage and political equality.
There are many ways I could serve other with my education, by doing my work for this country, by serving the ones that are less fortunate than I, and to teach the next generation of not just students, but also people that motivation and inspiration are the keys to success and that they should never give up. First, I'd try to do my work in this world by what I am taught in my classroom and applying it to the real world. I would use the morals that my teachers use in the classroom in a world that desperately needs my intelligence, and my sense of service. There is no justice in this world and I would use my education to try and apply it to where it needs to be like: in the world, in the courts, in the prisons, in the fields, in the study and in the classroom, at home and abroad. A second way I'd use my education to serve others is by serving the people that are less fortunate than I am.
n today's world, education is what classifies someone from another. Our education is what brings us up a level in society and lack there of, down a level. Although education is optional, the way in which its taught and preached is changing. Education is meant to broaden our abilities and minds, teaching us the necessities of life. After reading " And then I Went to School," and "College Pressures", its evident that the word education is viewed differently depending on the "students" background.
So society is said to be meritocratic, as everybody can achieve if they want to. Durkheim (2002) Believes that there are fixed rules for all and by transmitting the norms and values across society, it is then fair and meritocratic. Marxists on the other hand believe that meritocracy is a myth and that it hides the truth of the inequality in society. Sociologists argue that the processes in school such as the hidden curriculum helps to keep society unequal. The hidden curriculum has a big influence on pupils, its one thing to teach the child educationally but if the child is treated unjustly (no voice) by the school system then a much more negative message is given to those pupils about the nature of society.
I think the conflict is that school should teach us everything not only to get our degree especially our own life. There are different nationality in the United States from different cultures and I think because of that, schools should teach us a little bit about these cultures. I mean we should at least know who are they, where they are came from, and what language do they speak. 3. What additional evidence might strengthen Ho’s arguments?