One important question, how do sociology and psychology of education help teachers to teach well? ... In sociology of education, the teachers will learn about the social stratification and education. ... The sociology of education also highlights the teachers" prejudice against certain ethnic minority groups and preference to the male students. ... In order for the teachers to be able to teach well, the sociology of education also provides knowledge about the culture of schools. ... Sociology of education also provides the knowledge of the pupils" views of teachers and teachers" view of pupil...

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Sociology of Education – Social Dimension to Education In her article 'Educating Society' (2009) Julie McLeod's main focus is the sociology of education and how issues of class, race and ethnicity and gender intersect with education on a fundamental level. 'Sociological studies of education show how educational institutions are part of the social fabric and how what happens in school-scan both reflect and have consequences for social relations and social processes.'... Key Concepts and Debates within the Sociology of Education The big question raised by the stu...

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Educators must facilitate a host of diverse in order to develop complex interrelationships, tolerant perspectives within their community in order to develop an inherent power across the community. ... 'Recent work on literacy from an ethnographic perspective has questioned the international categorization of a single uniform thing called 'literacy''. ... Diminishing the Divisions Among Us: Reading and Writing Across Difference in Theory and Method in the Sociology of Education. ...

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Baker and Lattuca in 2010 titled study "Developmental networks and learning: toward an interdisciplinary perspective on identity development during doctoral study" asserts that sociocultural networks help develop academic success amongst doctoral learners. ... Of those, 83 students 40 came from the Department of Sociology and 43 from Education Foundation programs. ... Baker and Lattuca study focuses on doctoral learners and the importance of networks and sociocultural perspective in developing self-identity. ...

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From a political perspective, 1979 marked the introduction of Margaret Thatcher's neo-liberal government in Britain, closely followed in 1980 by the Reagan administration in the US. ... This is the very foundation of neoliberalism, in particular, the reasoning used to describe society as a meritocracy (Giddens, 2013:338) To further explore the ideal of meritocracy, neoliberalism borrows from the sociological perspective of functionalism, whereby all the parts of the state amass to form society. ... So from this perspective, it could be argued that neoliberals see the achievement gap as a...

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Researches in Psychology, education and sociology have shown that competition in the educational setting is needless. ... He continued, saying this method of evaluating diligence and motivation rather undermines its purpose and gives no value to the hard work in the educational perspective, (Broome, 1930). ...

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Today, MOOCs are offered on nearly any subject imaginable from nutrition to economics to sociology and many offer the same benefits: free of charge, availability to anyone with an internet connection, and flexibility. ... Moreover, with over two and a half billion users, the internet is the perfect playground for students from cultures of every continent on the planet to come together and discuss their unique perspectives about the world. ...

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Introduction In this world of plurality and polivocality, it has become a challenge for both educators and learners to negotiate their voices and opinions on a number of things the way that they should move forward and hence give the pedagogy a go, keeping the tunnel open for any sort of heightened understanding between parties concerned. I, like others, in the same boat, feel the exigency of this orchestration, as I encounter the problems of differences in opinions between my students and me both inside and outside the classroom. Negotiating these differences between students and their teache...

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The development of various pieces of legislation such as the Education Reform Act and Education Acts, as well as the development of Ofsted, education has become much more competitive. For example, league tables produced through Ofsted inspections mean that parents are much more competitive as they w...

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(Letts, 2001) In contrast to the functionalist theory, Marxism took a new perspective on the school environment; who argued that education is a function in which to maintain class inequalities in wealth and power. ...

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