Sociology of Education II

Ideology, school, and education as processes of reproducing society
- The pedagogical field as the “Cloaca Maxima” of the dominant ideology and its phantasmatic dimensions
- Inaction as a consequence of ideology
- The presence of ideology where we do not expect it
- Education for personal responsibility, critical attitudes, collective decision-making, and changing unjust social relations
Nature vs nurture
- Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation to learn
- The student’s interest in and/or responsibility for knowledge acquisition
- Sex and gender: the gender binary, gender identity, and gender identification

Changes in the perception of knowledge through history
- Knowledge as a value in itself; knowledge as a tool to be used
- Knowledge assessment vs formative assessment
- Education in public school: the subject’s freedom and autonomy

Expectations that society and schools have of the younger generations in terms of general education
- School and expectations about reading more complex printed texts and learning more complex content
- Differences in the effects of reading on different media (digital and printed) and linear and non-linear texts

Power and the authority of significant Others (parents, carers, and teachers)
- Pedagogical practices that undermine the teacher’s authority at the symbolic level
- The teacher as a subject who is presumed to know.

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