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Difference between overt and covert curriculums?
- Overt: math, english history. GIVEN.
- Covert: school becames Social Institution. HIDDEN.
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Details on Covert...
- information IS. knowledge DOES.
- becomes coproduced by society.
- reproduce unequal social structure.
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Details on Covert...
- use the Banking Method.
- students: empty vessels.
- filled with INFORMATION. not knowledge.
- establishes passive consumption.
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Passive consumption:
- teaches us that we CANNOT transform society.
- there is no human agency.
- simply reproduce inequality.
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What is "human agency"?
the ability to act or change reality.
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What are "agents of socialization"? Examples.
- those who influence us on the ways we act within society.
- media, family, church, school.
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Cultural capital...
- passed down in terms of inheritance.
- like stocks and bonds.
- education system reproduces this.
- ex: SAT/ACT (written to reflect particular society).
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The educational system creates...
same, deformed society.
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Major examples of the deformed educational system:
- Catcher of the Rye.
- Pink Floyd.
- speak of society become replicated.
- deformed.
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