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Roles of Schooling in Social Identity

The document outlines several historic and social roles of education, including population control, training for work, managing unruly masses, teaching citizenship, passing on culture to new generations, developing productive skills, socializing behavior, and developing national identity. Schools socialize students by teaching manners, behavior, obedience to authority, competition, and more. Regarding citizenship, schools teach rituals, history, symbols to develop national identity and understanding of civic roles. However, education also reflects broader societal culture and priorities. More education is associated with improved health, wealth, political engagement, community involvement, and open-mindedness. While education can enable social mobility, one's social status also shapes their educational opportunities and outcomes.

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Roles of Schooling in Social Identity

The document outlines several historic and social roles of education, including population control, training for work, managing unruly masses, teaching citizenship, passing on culture to new generations, developing productive skills, socializing behavior, and developing national identity. Schools socialize students by teaching manners, behavior, obedience to authority, competition, and more. Regarding citizenship, schools teach rituals, history, symbols to develop national identity and understanding of civic roles. However, education also reflects broader societal culture and priorities. More education is associated with improved health, wealth, political engagement, community involvement, and open-mindedness. While education can enable social mobility, one's social status also shapes their educational opportunities and outcomes.

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Historic Roles of Schooling

 Population Control
 Training for Work
 Managing the unruly masses
 Teaching citizenship

Social roles of Education


 Pass a way of life (culture) on to next generation
 Develop productive skills for benefit of society
 Socialize appropriate behaviour; develop norms and values
 Develop citizenship skills & engagement & national identity
o National identity is changing
o Same sex marriage is changing how we perceive people

Schooling & Norms/Values


• Schools aren’t just technical/neutral sites of learning the 3 R’s! Also impart and
reflect values
 Schools socialize us – teach us how to behave in our society
o Learning manners and appropriate behaviour Stop bullying
o Work together
 Gaining sense of time
 Obeying authority, doing what we’re told
 Listening to others
 Doing your best, working hard
 Competing against others

Schooling & Citizenship


• Learn about rituals, history, symbols
• Developing an “Australian” identity
• Developing an Australian collective
• Learning about roles and duties of government & citizens
• Becoming politically empowered & engaged
• Accepting society’s political values
• Needs critical thinking
• Listen, reflect, research, look at different perspectives, evaluate

Reflects our culture/the larger society


 Schools reflect our culture and are intricately and mutually connected with the
larger society
 Schools teach a “hidden curriculum” – the things that get taught implicitly
 Most countries have similar curricula
 But often have different “priorities”, aims
o “English curriculum won’t prioritize understanding of Aboriginal culture
because it’s not relevant to them”

Education & Life Chances


According to research, the more years of education we have, the more we are:
• Healthy
o Know more about health, what to do to be healthy, resources to be
healthy, access to medical care, knowledge to find out what’s available
• Wealthy & esteemed (status)
• Politically engaged
o If undereducated, don’t realize they have an influence and how they
have an influence
o Those who don’t have power don’t have their say
• Engaged with community
• Tolerant, open-minded, progressive, critical, reflective
o High level on Bloom’s Taxonomy

Social Status and Schooling


• Education is main vehicle for social mobility (moving up the social ladder)
• But our social status/class also shapes our educational opportunities and
outcomes
• Education can help us move up the ladder, but can also keep us in our place

Roles of Schools (Reimer)


• Daycare
• Indoctrinate next generation
• Selection into careers/workforce
• Educate students
Purposes of Schooling (Politics and School Education in Australia)
• Democratic equality
• Social efficiency
• Social mobility

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