Understanding School and Society

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Understanding School and Society

• Definintions
• and the
• Analytic Framework

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Definitions - Analytic Concepts

• Social Theory - explains phenomena - not
  disconnected from practice
• internal consistency
• account for data
• agree with other theories
• Schooling - that which occurs in the context of
  the school system - not to be confused with
  education

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Definitions - Analytic Concepts

• Training - experiences to result in a pre-defined
  outcome
• not to be confused with education although
  education can include training
• Education - a process or set of experiences
  involving intellect, reason, intuition,
  creativity that allows individuals to creat
  themselves. Outcome is often unpredictable

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Definitions - Analytic Concepts

• Political Economy - social, cultural, economic,
  political and demographic dimensions of a society
  - organization of a society
• Ideology - the lens through which a society
  examines its parts and justifies decisions

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Analytic Framework
Political Economy
Ideology
Schooling
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Application of FrameworkClass Activity

• For assigned topic
• explain the beliefs and implications of the
  beliefs for the topic assigned for each of the
  three parts of the analytic framework
• change the belief(s) in one of the three analytic
  parts and explain how the other two
  might/could/would possibly change
• share before and after situations with class