Transcript Chapter One
School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Chapter One Introduction: Understanding School and Society (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Social foundations helps teachers to: • Make sense of classroom situations by understanding the larger social context of culture, social and economic class, gender, race, etc. • Make the best decisions for all students • Continually evaluate teaching goals and methods (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Tools of Inquiry -Social theory -Training -Education -Schooling -Political economy -Ideology (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Social Theory • An attempt to make sense of and explain social phenomena • An attempt to explain reality and practice • Should be internally consistent, account for the data, and agree with other relevant theory • Neither “the absolute truth” nor “just another interpretation” (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Schooling • The totality of experiences occurring within the institution of “school” • Formal curriculum, extracurricular activities, “hidden curriculum” • Reflects the influence of government (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Training • Preparation for specific roles or to improve one’s skills • Goals generated by the trainer • Potential for indoctrination? • Necessary in some situations (driving) (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Political Economy • Social, cultural, economic, political, and demographic dimensions of a society • How a society is organized in order to function (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Education Promotes the skills and understandings to: • Develop a wide range of human capacities • Prepare for a wide range of roles • Nourish reason, intellect, intuition, and creativity (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Ideology • Society’s justification for its political, social, and economic arrangements • The beliefs, value systems, and understandings of social groups • Almost always created and articulated by the dominant group (the “dominant ideology”) • Embedded in ALL societies (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Schooling & Culture in Classical Greece • Political economy Citizens—owned property, opportunity to participate in government Non-citizens • Women—proper place was in the household • Slaves—private property (“chattel”) • Metics—neither slaves nor citizens; worked in variety of occupations (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Schooling & Culture in Classical Greece • Ideology Reason revealed workings of natural world Virtue facilitated harmony with the universe Citizens participated in the political democracy, and therefore “lived freely,” because of their superior rational capacity • Schooling Available to young boys and men Gymnastics, music, and literature Avoidance of vocations; preparation for leisure (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Concluding Remarks • Good theory is useful in identifying and explaining phenomena—including practice. • The interaction of political economy, ideology, and schooling (analytic framework) are important focus of the social foundations of education. • Meaning depends on context, and understanding meaning requires inquiry. Teachers must be active participants in this inquiry. (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Tozer/Senese/Violas, School and Society, 5e School & Society: Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding School and Society Developing Your Professional Vocabulary -Athenian citizenship -Athenian slavery -democracy -education through participation -ideology -training versus education -political economy -schooling versus education -social foundations of education -social theory (c) 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 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