By analyzing chapters three, four and five in Nelson's "Schooling as Entertainment", it can be shown that a connection does exist between popular culture and schooling, resulting in school becoming more like society. This connection can be seen through the exploitation of television, drug use in the classroom, and the constant struggle to be "popular".
Television has created and shaped our culture both in and outside of school. T.V is what portrays the image of popular culture. (Jan 5 2004, notes) With the development of the television in the nineteen fifties, comes the access to world issues and trends such as fashion and language. Because of this, television is said to have a "Globalizing" effect, in which the whole world is linked through television. With this in mind, we see the trends change as times change. Take for example the acid washed jeans, and the neon colours of the eighties or early nineties. This look was thought to be "cool" at the time, but looking back, people often question why they wore the clothes they did. This example can be directly related to the fashions viewed on television at the time. "Every new media changes us" (Jan 5 2004, notes), it changes the way we look, and the way we act. .
In this manner we can see the affects that television has on schools, shaping individual to be more like the "popular culture". "Television has been the centre of our popular culture for fifty years. It has influenced our identity, who we have become, both as individuals and as a culture." (Nelson 2002, pg 59) By being forced to go to school kids are exposed to the popular culture every day. They see what the latest trends are and learn the new slang. This exposure in the class- room is different then the exposure of T.V. because nobody is forced to watch television. Television can be turned off at any time unlike school. "Whereas a classroom is a place of social interaction, the space in front of a television set is a private preserve.
Today, home schooling is as popular as ever. ... The laws that regulate home schooling vary from state to state. ... Religion also plays a major role in home schooling. ... For many, home schooling gives family life an unexpected richness. ... Also, home schooling seems to minimize the friction between teens and their parents. ...
One of the traditions I deeply regret is the quickly disappearing traditions of a young child's coming into manhood, which vary in the USA among different religions and cultures. In less modern times the symbolic passing into manhood would usually include blood spilling, such as hunting, or the completion of schooling, some ceremony where we understand and accept that our actions and our decisions are our own. ... Our American culture seems to be now one built on layers of commercialized bastardized tradition and more traditions. ... There is no longer a distinction between culture or val...
A Comparison in Culture: The United States of America vs. ... Sports are very popular in American culture. Professional sports such as football, baseball, and basketball are the most popular spectator sports. ... Other sports such as cycling, racquetball, handball, and tennis are also popular among Americans. ... Theater is also a large part of American culture. ...
Another popular parenting program is homeschooling. Homeschooling has become increasingly popular with the American public. ... The benefits of home schooling as it provide the best possible opportunity for healthy relationship parent-child relationship. ... Asian culture has big emphasis on academic study and ethics. ... Corporal punishment is allowed in our culture and often encouraged when the children misbehave. ...
This varies across cultures. Culture's standards of health also change with the passing of time. ... Smoking became very popular after World War I and remained popular for many decades despite the knowledge of the great danger that the cigarette smoke presents to both the smoker and those around them. ... Another effect of economics is level of schooling. People with more schooling have been shown to be less likely to develop a smoking habit. ...
hoansi culture and lifestyle throughout the book. ... hoansi culture. ... In fact 75% of all the men had one or another of the eleven most popular names, while 73% of woman had one of the twelve most popular names (72). ... The large majority has little or no schooling and job prospects are low. ... I think Lee succeeds in his goal of sharing his knowledge of a culture similar to how our own culture may have developed. ...
Her early schooling was in the hands of her parents, her grandmother and various tutors and craftspeople. even though her parents were agnostics, she decided at age eleven to be baptized an Episcopalian. ... Anthropologists were concerned that opportunities to study cultures in secluded parts of the world would soon vanish. ... Her focus was on adolescents, rather than on the ethnography, or description, of an entire culture. ... As in many of her later writings, her popular account of her field work in New Guinea, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, included controversial conc...
Later, the types of education have greatly been developed until the Islamic expansion stage which greatly changed the cultural structure which was enhanced by the inception of the successive Islamic states in the Sudan noticeably the Black Sultanate during which educational institutions had spread influencing the culture of the Sudanese people. The Turkish rule, coinciding with the emergence of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the recession of the Islamic expansion, sought modern schooling alternatives paralleled to the prevailing religious schooling. ... It opted for modern school to...
Thus, marginalised families that are diverse in their language, culture, ethnicity and class are often represented as a deficit discourse. In viewing these families as lacking, instruction in schools often continues to overemphasise the language, culture and values of the mainstream population as a way to resist the shifting demographics. ... This way schooling is meeting the needs of the family, and parents are in turn able to understand the literacy practices that schools support to ultimately empower students to be successful within society (Cairney & Munsie, 1995). ... They are just n...