In "From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work", an article by City University of New York professor Jean Anyon, she explores the caliber of public education by social class. She monitors five different elementary schools all with different economic backgrounds over an entire school year. In her article, Anyon exposes the difference in the quality of education between wealthy cities similar to Beverly Hills, California and poor cities such as Compton, California. Although there have been many efforts by the government for all schools to be "equal", that isn't the case. The children in wealthier areas are prepared all throughout grade school to attend college and be successful in life; whereas the latter is prepared for working class jobs right out of high school without even a second thought about attending college. Over half of America's students are cheated out of the education they deserve. While some argue that education is equal throughout the United States, Jean Anyon proves that social class determines the quality of education.
Students in different social classes are held up to different expectations. The quality of education changes depending on location and location is usually determined by household income. Children with wealthy parents, regardless if they attend a public or private school, are expected to grow up, do well in school and attend a four year university right out of high school. Children with working class parents are brought up to take over the jobs of their parents. They aren't expected to go to college; therefore their teachers don't bother to prepare them for college. Anyon observed that "fifth graders of different economic backgrounds are already being prepared to occupy particular rungs on the social ladder"(163). From the start of education, one can see the different paths that students are being led to. If a working class student wants to go to college, then (s)he has to prepare himself with no real help.
Without an education it is difficult to move up in class. ... Education differs very much in the class. ... Social mobility is moving up or down in a social class. ... His son has no inheritance, goes to a public school, and grows up middle class. ... The last is exchange mobility is when the same number of people that move up in a social class also moves down in social class....
I've always wondered why social class isn't a topic that is much discussed but we all think about often. ... For the poor and working class, the normal has always been to graduate high school and possibly attend college. ... The effect of this on lower class individuals is non mobility between the social and/or economic classes. ... These particular students at those schools were raised within a household where their parents understood the value of an education. ... I am very optimistic that the continued debates of social class and education will continue to inspire individuals like...
SOCIAL-CLASS EFFECTS ON EDUCATION AND SOCIALIZATON Education is one of the pivotal institutions in terms of sociology. ... In the second part, it is exemplified how social class differences play a role on the socialization of the individual from the birth of the child and during the education years. ... Students from higher social backgrounds are much more likely to stay in the education process (Hess, 1995). ... Parsons also believed that school is a meritocracy and, regardless of class. ... He argued that there are substantial differences in the ways parents of differing social cl...
The typical public school teacher is a middle-class white female. ... In their essay "Social Class and Education,"" Brookover and Gottlieb refer to studies done by sociologists and educators that indicate that "eventual expression of talent- (Chilcott, 264) is affected by the ways parents rear their children, and that the expectations and attitudes of parents affect their children's achievements in school. ... Some educators think that teaching parents how to help their children learn would be a big step toward overcoming social-class barriers in education (Spring, 102). ... Parents in bo...
The home environment has a big role in a child's education and if it is not supportive of the school environment, the student will not be as successful in school as the child whose home environment is supportive of the school's learning environment will. The typical public school teacher is a middle-class white female. ... In their essay "Social Class and Education,"" Brookover and Gottlieb refer to studies done by sociologists and educators that indicate that "eventual expression of talent- (Chilcott, 264) is affected by the ways parents rear their children, and that the expectation...
In Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work, Jean Anyon discusses the differences in the school curriculum of fifth graders between working-class, middle-class, affluent professional, and executive elite schools. ... Anyon's hidden curriculum is that students are being taught the skills and levels of education needed to accomplish the same types of jobs that their parents do and remain on those same social class levels. The working-class schools had parents in little skilled jobs, therefore students were taught a simple curriculum. ... Response In response to this essay, I agree wit...
This will affect the way the students view themselves hence if they're labeled 'thick' they may act accordingly and give up, therefore increasing the social class difference as the students will evidently fail in education and therefore will not be able to aim for high pay jobs. ... As a result of labeling the boys in his study rejected school's values and created an anti-school subculture and as a result of this they end up with working class jobs. ... Marxists criticize the labeling theory, as although there are many factors within the education system that create so...
Durkheim believes that with education, it helps to kids to the internalization of social rules which needed for social function. (Giddens, 2008) With all these social purposes of education, individualistic purpose of education is to compose the differences which comes out while child development with social order. ... With these changes, existent problems in schools about social classes and financial problems had risen. ... Such as on school events, they are not allowed to attend them or about the social helps, they couldn't get it. Or even some cases, being the black sheep in class,...
"(p. 218) The student has no say in what they study because if they do not do what is asked of them they will receive a bad grade or even fail the class. ... When compared, the classrooms of a school that practices a Montessori Method of Education (right) and a school that uses traditional education methods (left), one can see vast differences right away. ... Another unique aspect to a Montessori classroom is the mixed age groups in each class. ... This is dissimilar to traditional classrooms where there is only one age group per class (Williams and Keith, Democracy and Montessori Education). ...