Response Canvas Week 8 - Education process through which academic social cultural ideas and tools are developed Schools 1 educate schools teach general

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