Education Is A Conduit For Social Education

Bell Hooks, shares many things that I can relate to in Teaching to Transgress, from the perspective as a father (teacher), husband (teacher), Uncle (teacher), Cousin, etc. Growing up in Philadelphia, I did not know how underprivileged my family was, since we were affluent in additional areas, it did not matter. However, I noticed it my second week of high school. Knowledge opened a completely new world for me and forced me to think critically and challenge everything that I read, hear, touch, and even taste. As a husband, if I am unable to lead, my family will perish. If I do not show enthusiasm while doing school projects with my 13-year-old, she will not have passion to pull from, and ultimately not succeed.

“Start Where You Are But Don’t Stay There” by Richard Milner is a book about dealing with diversity in the classroom in today’s day and age. It holds a focus on allowing all students to be successful academically and throughout their lives. Milner talks about several different case studies in which teachers must help students who are struggling. It goes through scenarios with Mr. Hall, Dr. Johnson, Mr. Jackson, and Ms. Shaw, who are all struggling with diversity in different ways. This book holds an importance in expressing ideas and concerns of equality in schools, and I believe it would be beneficial for all aspiring educators to read it.

Reynolds illustrates how there are a variety of different ways social justice can be taught, and explains how each teacher has a different way of implementing the same ideas. She provides examples of lessons a child might learn and the biases behind it teaching social justice. Reynolds is concerned with the age range of teaching social justice and when is considered the appropriate time. New teachers are now getting taught how to teach social justice within the class room, and the curriculum is changing to include aspects of social justice. Reynolds states how social justice is a branch off the bigger question of “who gets to decide the best

How to minimize the hurts of non-white children once their belief on the theory of a society is fair and equality is completely collapsed when the reality is happening in the opposite. In the reading “Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color” Mildred Boveda, an assistant education professor at Arizona State University, said: “I will admit that it sometimes felt risky to tackle these difficult conversations, but this [research] underscores why we cannot equivocate when it comes to preparing our children to face injustices.” I agree with her opinion. Because finding the proper solutions to fully empower and equipping the best knowledge that can help children cope better is not easy, but it is the responsibility of the family, the school, and society. The three elements need to act and work together in an effort to dare to speak about the truths mentioned above.

Social mobility is a measure of how children’s social and economic position in adulthood compare to that of their parents. A major factor that many people believe can impact social mobility is education. However, I believe the impact of education is largely determined by the quality of education, which today is determined by where you live. Therefore, systems that discriminate against certain individuals based their neighborhood, largely impact their ability to obtain a good education, and as a result limit the extent of their social mobility. An example of this is redlining, coined by sociologist John McKnight, to describe a discriminatory practice, by which banks and insurance companies refuse loans to certain people based on where they live, because the geographic area is deemed as poor or financially risky. The areas they refused to invest in were predominantly neighborhoods of color, marked by redline separating the areas that were okay to invest in from neighborhoods that were “risky”. The implications of this system reinforced a cycle of decline in these areas due to business’s inability to prosper as a result of being blocked from obtaining loans. I want to make it clear that the system of redlining that I am describing is still alive and well in the present day, but takes on a slightly different form due to technology. In this paper, I will examine educational-redlining, as a means of social immobility to explore the relationship between the sociological concepts

I believe that with motivation and guidance, children of all backgrounds can harbor success in the educational world and receive the skills they need to have a successful and prosperous life. It is a teacher’s duty to encourage lifelong learning, consider individual learning styles and aptitudes, and self-reflect on how to improve. My experiences as an engineer, a person of color, a pre-service teacher, and a STEM advocate have culminated together to form my educational values and philosophy.

One may think of education as a bridge to a successful life. But it is more than just that; it is a special gift. Many people in first world countries undermine education. They take it for granted without realizing the good it can do for them. It is up to the government to provide equal and quality education available to everyone, regardless of color and class. However, that is not the case in Detroit Public Schools. The Detroit schools are in terrible conditions. The buildings are deteriorating, there is a lack of sanitization, a lack of school supplies, such as books and many other health concerns. Not only that but the school’s educational quality is decreasing as many teachers leave and school officials are caught in scandals. The Movement,

Ladies and gentleman, we are gathered here to push the human race forward. We believe that by improving the educational system we are investing in our future, that everyone should be able to access the type of education that is right for them. Nowadays America faces a very distressful situation regarding the educational reach of our system, which has been engaged with several issues, such as unequal access to education, student dropouts, violence within the walls of the classroom, bullying, gender bias and standardized tests that put the educational community at the verge of a methodic and old fashion evaluation process which eventually lead to a particular lifestyle of the students. Also, the lack of interest in the matter of community service has been rising, as well as our concern for the safe keeping of the citizen’s humanitarian values.

Nearly 45% of the predominately white families within my school district qualify for free or reduced lunch. That means about 45% of these families’ annual income falls below the poverty line. These families are in desperate need of being educated on the bigger issues in the world and how they can empower themselves to make changes within their lives and families. Education can be used to educate these families to understand the world’s injustices, such as poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment that affect their future, and how they can carefully examine these social problems that continue to oppress their community, while seeking to find solutions to fix the flaws of society. Without this education, history will continue to repeat itself for this community. Until someone learns how to take a stand and end the inequalities that afflict this small

I found the readings this week very difficult to read because of the injustices many students face in schools. I have been interested in studying education since I was in high school. I am currently not on the track to become a teacher, but I still see the value of a teacher and the value of a student feeling safe in schools. In Herbert’s article, he discusses the vast difference in punishments a white student and a black student received. In my life I grew up in predominately white neighborhoods and went to schools with predominately white students, and did not have a first hand account of the injustices students of color face each day. After learning about education and volunteering in local schools, I have found that these injustices are

It is essential that all schools pursue and uphold principles of social justice if our education system is to provide all students with a quality and equitable education’.

. According to John Dewey education plays a large role in the development of an individual and it is an element that separates humans from other animals. It is important to try to comprehend what Dewey means by this and in order to do so the following must be done. First, one must understand the role education plays in an individual and Dewey’s notions of education in the areas of growth, direction and social function. Second, after comprehending Dewey’s notions of education in the areas of growth, direction, and social function, one must be able to grasp the distinction between education as a social function and the simple notion of training and what sets these two apart. Third, after being able to comprehend the notions of education and the distinction between education as a social function and training, the idea of why education is distinctive of human life will be further developed.

Over the last sixteen weeks I have grown in so many ways that have affected my view on education today. Our world and education today is much different than what it was in the past. I think a major misconception about teaching is that we just teach curriculum, however, teachers serve many different roles in their classrooms and schools. These roles are created because of many different factors, such as sociometric status, poverty levels, and school systems. As we learned in our class, students react to these different factors in many ways and these are main reasons that will affect a classroom. In this essay, I will be discussing our navigations through the social justice issues and other factors that classrooms face by talking about the key points of our class throughout the semester.

Even as a young child, I enjoyed the school environment; the safe space in which students can participate, experiment, and grow both as learners and as people. The messages both implicit and explicit often aligned with my values of the importance of obtaining knowledge, rational and logical thought, and hard work. As I have grown older and even through my program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I am more aware of some of the inconsistencies inherent between these values and our current public school system. As a “smart,” white, male student I had a different experience than many. One of the reasons I want to teach is to spread my largely positive and empowering experience of schooling to as many students as possible.

The sociology of education is a diverse and vibrant subfield that features theory and research focused on how education as a social institution is affected by and affects other social institutions and the social structure overall, and how various social forces shape the policies, practices, and outcomes of schooling (www.thoughtco.com). Sociology of education is the systematic study of educational system within the broader social context. At the heart of sociology is a special point of view called the sociological perspective of education.