Your gift will support The New Press in continuing to leverage books for social change. Please make a tax-deductible donation today! Skip to main content. Enter your keywords. You are here Home. Available: February Also available as an e-book. Facebook Goodreads. Purchase from paperback. Barnes and Noble. Mike Rose. Topics: Education. He was already on the path to becoming one of our most exciting thinkers about education in the lives of marginalized people.
However, Functionalists also believe in value consensus between members of society as they agree a key role of education is to pass on values and socialise individuals using the hidden curriculum. This contrasts with Marxists who believe that society is in conflict - the Bourgeoisie who own the means of production exploit the Proletariat who are the means of production and this creates alienation amongst Proletariat members and a sense of false class consciousness.
Parsons believes that education is the bridge between family and society. In schools, individuals are judged through exams and educational success, therefore, we are judged on universalistic values universal school values.
This means the education system trains individuals to accept norms and values of the wider society because the education system teaches individuals that it is fair and therefore, education is meritocratic. Based on the information that I have analyzed and reviewed, I feel that the two are related.
With the education these undocumented students are receiving is placing them in a high category for high-end positions that the US appears to be lacking in qualified candidates. Additionally, I have found that they are not getting a free education.
The taxes that these undocumented workers are paying help contribute to the education system and the students are backing their education by their own funding. With these students choosing to stay in the US, they are feeding our economy and helping it grow. Thus, one is likely to understand the reason as to why policymakers stress the importance of dedicating oneself to the improvements in the educational field because it reduces income inequality Gregorio, , p.
Therefore, researchers focus on the availability and quality of education to the general public Keller, , p. This is because in order for one to receive higher paying jobs; they must possess a higher education Keller, , p.
Because of this, researchers study how the different levels of education individually affect income inequality Keller, , p. Education is very important for a developing countries like Malaysia. Whether it is economically or socially, education plays an important role in the growth of these two vital factors.
It affects the way we think about students—about intelligence, achievement, human development, teaching and learning, opportunity and obligation. To me, the National Writing Project has always been a home for serious talk about writing, instruction, learning, and school policy.
It has never espoused a particular practice, but rather asked people to bring their experience, their intelligence, and their work together.
It is a place where we ask hard questions and try to understand and act on our knowledge with the understanding that to do so means to raise more questions and to continue to produce more problems on which to work.
The writing project, indeed, is to me an important home for civic dialogue about how to improve public schools and extend meaningful learning opportunities to all of the nation's children. And Why School? So pick up Why School? Give it to your friends and family, parents and policymakers, students and teachers, but most of all share it with your writing project colleagues.
But ultimately these were treated in small vignette-like form, and I thus often found the analysis lacking the depth I was looking for. Dec 31, Cathy rated it it was amazing.
Mike Rose has been one of my favorite education writers since I read his Lives on the Boundary back in the early '90s. A product of a working class school system who was turned on to literature by a high school English teacher and went on to achieve not only a college-degree but also a Ph. D, Rose has devoted his working life to helping under-prepared and marginalized students make it to and through college, focusing on developmental--often called "remedial" English classes.
In short, he's devote Mike Rose has been one of my favorite education writers since I read his Lives on the Boundary back in the early '90s. In short, he's devoted to students like mine. Here he argues for a revolution in American discourse about education--what it means and who it is for: "Public discourse, heard frequently enough and over time, affects the way we think, vote, and lead our lives. I worry that the dominant vocabulary about schooling limits our shared respect for the extraordinary nature of thinking and learning, and lessens our sense of social obligation.
So it becomes possible for us to affirm that the most meaningful evidence of learning is a score on a standardized test, or to reframe the public good in favor of fierce and unequal competition for a particular kind of academic honor. Education is reduced to a cognitive horse race" In contrast to this status quo, Rose uses his experience visiting schools and communities across the country to suggest how we might reframe our society's perspective on education and re-invigorate a notion of the common good that has been lost in many circles in recent decades.
Part of this means recognizing the impact that poverty has on educational attainment: "Calculating, writing, solving a problem, or recalling information take place someplace with its economics and politics--which can have a profound effect on what goes on in a classroom. Poverty does not necessarily diminish the power of one's mind, but it certainly draws attention to the competing demands of safety and survival: the day-to-day assaults of the neighborhood, just the tense navigation from home to school.
The threats to family stability: illness or job loss--tough for any family--can unmoor a poor household. We need public talk that links education to a more decent, thoughtful, open society. Talk that raises in us as a people the appreciation for deliberation and reflection, or for taking intellectual risks and thinking widely--for the sheer power and pleasure of using our minds, alone or in concert with others" Rose presents an unabashed, unapologetic liberal view that education is about more than only preparing for jobs, more than just success at narrow skills assessments; rather it is about expanding the mind and experience of all who would like to embark on the journey--and providing the available means for all to do so.
May 17, ayanami rated it it was ok Shelves: non-fiction , , work-resources , education. This book is comprised of many short chapters, each tackling an issue related to American education. It covers some great topics, all quite relevant to the current educational landscape but the chapters are so short that the author isn't able to go into very much detail.
Many of the chapters feel like introductions to much longer essays, but before you can get to the meat of the issue, the chapter ends, and you're confronted with the next topic. This isn't so much a book as it is a collection of This book is comprised of many short chapters, each tackling an issue related to American education. This isn't so much a book as it is a collection of short introductions to education-related concerns.
I think it's adequate as a starting point to think about how we conceive of and approach school and learning, but I would have liked to read about some of the topics in more detail. I did enjoy the chapter concerning intelligence-- Rose brings up a very good point about how we tend to categorize people, their work and their intelligence in terms of dichotomies-- industrial work hand vs.
Just because someone does industrial work doesn't mean they are any less intelligent than a white-collar employee. A factory worker, to use his example, needs a rich knowledge of the materials and tools used in his work, needs problem solving skills, be efficient, etc. Jan 29, Paul rated it really liked it. A superb writer, taking the responsibility society has towards education seriously and suggesting a different vocabulary to use in dialogue about it.
Here is a sample from page - " I also heard talk of safety and respect. Commitment to create a safe environment and a respectful regard for the backgrounds and capabilities of the people in it. I saw the effect of high expectations: teachers taking students seriously as intellectual and social beings. I saw what happens when teachers distribu A superb writer, taking the responsibility society has towards education seriously and suggesting a different vocabulary to use in dialogue about it.
I saw what happens when teachers distribute responsibility through a classroom, create opportunities for students to venture opinion, follow a hunch, make something new. I saw the power of bringing students together around common problems and projects - the intellectual and social energy that results, generating vital public space. Dec 02, Jonathan Cassie rated it really liked it. In less than smallish pages literally - the book could fit easily into a pretty tight front jeans pocket , Rose articulates the causes of many of the problems bedeviling American education in the early 21st century.
The biggest of which is our movement away from an education philosophy which balanced preparation for work with preparation for citizenship and preparation for living a life well led. Our 21st century public values are corporatist, work fetishizing and imbalanced - Rose makes th In less than smallish pages literally - the book could fit easily into a pretty tight front jeans pocket , Rose articulates the causes of many of the problems bedeviling American education in the early 21st century.
Our 21st century public values are corporatist, work fetishizing and imbalanced - Rose makes that case gently and well. Well worth reading. Excellent, quick, and insightful read on the purposes of schooling in America and how those purposes have shifted over time.
Explores the cost of this shift to producing workers and questions some of our assumptions about opportunity, intelligence, and schooling. My students enjoyed it as well. Essential big-picture thinking for anyone interested in education. Dec 01, Gregg rated it really liked it Shelves: education-reform , education.
Having come out towards the tail end of the Obama administration and right before they geared up for the Every Student Succeeds Act, one would think the material here is dated.
Not so. He echoes much in here that anyone who cares about education will doubtless be familiar with. Hard to square that circle these days and stay employed, or at least well-evaluated. Rose always comes out in favor of the student. He cares. He makes you care more.
After reading Why School? As a whole, Why School? Beyond that, Rose cuts through all of the "technocratic" reforms on education, problematizing how a unidimensional gaze on standards and STEM could have deleterious effects on achieving a well-rounded education that ensures teachers are being treated as experts in their fields, not just curriculum followers.
Though utopic at times, Why School? We need more people like Rose at the helm of all big social institutions.
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