Deck 20: E: Education

Question 1

What impact on education would you predict as a result of changing information technologies?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Following the social-conflict approach,what are the problems in the Canadian educational system? Consider quality of public schooling,inequality among schools,and access to higher education.Consider class,gender,race,and ethnicity in your essay.

Answer 2

no answer

Question 3

Although Canadians have long debated the value of quality of education,the debate has intensified over the past decade or two.Discuss some of the major areas of concern regarding the educational system today.In your discussion of such issues as school discipline,dropping out,value for our money and academic standards,give some examples.

Answer 3

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Question 4

What are the manifest and latent functions of schooling,according to structural-functional analysis? Prepare a list of these functions for your essay,and then explain why the Canadian educational system attempts to ensure all these functions are fulfilled.Why,for example,does schooling assume latent functions of child care and the forging of lasting personal relationships? What is it about industrial society that places this role in the hands of our schooling system?

Question 5

Write an essay in which you demonstrate that schooling (or lack of it)around the world is linked to (a)level of economic development and (b)national cultural patterns.Include Canada in your comparative analysis.

Question 6

Following the social-conflict approach,what are the problems in Canadian educational system? Consider quality of public schooling,inequality among schools,and access to higher education.Consider class,gender,race,and ethnicity in your essay.