Response Canvas Week 8 - Education process through which...

1. educate
 schools teach general skills such as
reading, writing, and arithmetic
2. socialize
 Schools described as SORTING machines that
place students and groups according to their
skills, talents, and interests
 NOT based on merit, ultimately serves to
reproduce social inequalities
 Schools transmit values, beliefs, & attitudes that
are important to society
 socialize by rewarding some cultural beliefs &
behaviors more than others
 originated from trying to “Americanize” population
(e.g. immigrants, Native Americans, etc.)
Education: process through which academic, social, & cultural ideas and tools are developed
Schools 
CONTRIBUTORS to SOCIALIZATION:
Hidden curriculum: serves to form a more
cohesive society but has also been used to impose
the values of a dominant culture on outsiders or