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WHat is the difference between formal and informal education according to the book?






  • Formal -- (Math)
  • Informal -- (Cooking)

  • F - The learning of academic facts and concepts.
  • IF - The learning about cultural values, norms, and expected behaviours

Cultural Transmission relates, a bit, with formal education, seeing how both formal and informal education have it.

What is Cultural Transmission?

The way people come to learn the values, beliefs, and social norms.

Here is one theory on education given by..., well.... Functionalists.

What does Functionalism believe about education?

Education is one of the more important social institutions in a society.
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This is one of the two listed types of functions in education:

What is the Manifest Function?

Openly stated functions with intended goals

This is one of the two that are listed as the two types of functions in education:

What is the Latent Function?

Hidden, unstated functions with sometimes unintended consequences.

FEMINIST theory.

The prof will like this one! What do you think the theory does with education?

Aims to understand roots of gender inequality in education and how it is in society.

There is a critical term used in education for sociology.

This term is called Critical Sociology, but what does this term mean in terms of education?

Perspectives that look at how education creates social closure and inequality.

Hidden curriculum looks like it acquires something...

It also looks like it relates to a certain term of education a child gets.

What is Hidden curriculum?

Acquires skills that are not taught from teachers but family.

WHO was the one who studied social class reproduction?

Who was this guy who was so involved in education?

Pierre Bourdieu

Symbolic interactionism is a funny term that you should know.

Because as you read this sentence you are doing it right now.

What is symbolic interactionism?

The study of how language and symbols create meaning for a person's lived experience.

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