1. Education & Social Reproduction
Unit 2 Vocabulary
Education & Social Reproduction

2. Key Questions:
What is the point of school? Why does it look this way? (10%)
What does schooling look like in other countries? (80%)
Do we need to do schooling and education differently? (10%)

3. School
Institution for educating children
Traditional school vs. Home schooling
Traditional: teacher-centered delivery of instruction to classes of students who are the receivers of information
Home: parents choose to educate their children at home instead of sending them to a traditional public or private school

4. Public vs. Private vs. Charter
Public: school funded by government money and regulated by federal government
Private: a school supported by a private organization or private individuals rather than by the government
Charter: a publicly funded, but independently operated school under the terms of a charter with a local or national authority (not subject to same regulations as public school.

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7. Parochial school Montessori School
Schooling created by and for a religious ideology (eg, Catholic Schools)
Montessori School
Named after Dr. Maria Montessori
Emphasis: Hands-on learning, self-directed activity, and collaborative play
Allows children to make their own choices in learning with teacher as guide (not as master)

8. Aborigine (noun) refers to person, animal, or plant native to a location
Aboriginal (adjective): Indigenous or native, existing before colonial control

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10. Ethnocentrism
Judging other cultures according to preconceptions in your own culture
Xenophobia
Intense irrational dislike/fear of people from other countries (goes hand-in-hand with racism)

11. Racism
Belief that all members of each race have characteristics or abilities specific to that race that them either inferior or superior to another
Sexism
Believe that discrimination on basis of sex and gender is justified

12. Imperialism
Policy extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force
Existentialism
Philosophy that emphasizes the existence of the individual as a free agent who determines their development on their own.

13. Social Reproduction
Production and Reproduction of goods, services, culture and social norms from one generation to the next by the institutions and individuals of a society.
“production of goods and services and the production of life are part of the same integrated process”

14. Cultural Genocide
Purposeful and systematic destruction of traditions, values, language, and other elements of a culture