1. EDUCATION Education and Schooling
Education – social institution that deals with transmission of knowledge.
Schooling -- – is the more organized form of education that takes place in schools.

2. Education in a global Perspective
JAPAN
Education reflects group centered ethic.
College admissions are based on test scores regardless of social class.
Teachers are paid highly and have high prestige. Top 10% of the country’s wage earners.
Schooling reflects personal ability.
In early grades, children are taught cultural values of tradition and obligation to family.

3. INDIA
Widespread child labor
Half of the population is illiterate
Patriarch is significant – boys are favored.
Overcrowded schools
Education is used for elite formation

4. BRITAIN
Class differences determine the quality of education.
Schools reproduce class differences.
U.S.A.
Schooling shaped by democratic principles.
Highest number of people with degrees in the world.
Schools try to promote equality (equal opportunity)
Stresses the value of practical learning

5. THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF SCHOOLING
STUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM
Education enhances the operation and stability of society.
Manifest Functions
Socialization
Cultural innovation through research.
Social intergration
Social placement

6. Latent Functions
a) Child care
b) Social networks
c) Keep youths out of trouble.
d) Regulates job availability

7. SOCIAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS
Schools routinely provide learning according to students social backgrounds, thus perpetuating social inequality – gender, occupation, class etc.
Social control – schools stress social compliance through hidden curriculum—subtle presentation of political or cultural ideas in the classroom.
Standardized testing – biased in favor of affluent white students.
Tracking – assignment of students to different types of educational programs.

8. Inequality among schools.
Public vs. private schools.
Suburban vs. central city schools.
Credentialism – Evaluating a person on the basis of educational degrees.

9. Group work
Discuss the problems facing schools today.
How can you fix them?