Karen Roxas In Jean Anyon’s The Social Class and Hidden Curriculum of Work‚ Anyon depict that the different hidden curriculums in school education predetermine‚ for the most part‚ the social status of many of their students. The schools’ outside environment‚ economic standing‚ and student’s social background are some of the factors that predetermine the future of the students in a certain school. For example‚ working class schools‚ which are usually located in poor neighborhoods‚ are usually
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Rhetorical Analysis: Jean Anyon‚ Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work Jean Anyon is a professor of educational policy in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She wrote this essay for the Journal of Education in 1980 with the main audience being professional educators. Through this essay she portrays his observations of five elementary schools in which he concluded‚ over a full school year‚ that fifth graders of different economic backgrounds are already being prepared
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in the essay “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by author Jean Anyon as tools to persuade her audience of Professional Educators. In the 1980 article‚ Anyon examines‚ through imperial research‚ how elementary students of different socioeconomic status (SES) receive differing educations. Anyon affirms that access to an equal education is not easily accessible to those of the lower working class. Furthermore‚ Anyon attests that students from higher SES backgrounds have an advantage when
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and The Hidden Curriculum of Work‚” Jean Anyon talks about contrasting social-class school systems and the differing curriculum offered in each. The different social-class school systems consist of working-class‚ middle-class‚ affluent professional‚ and executive elite. As Anyon goes into detail about the interactions in the classroom between the teachers and the students‚ it seems that the higher the social-class‚ the better the education provided is. Anyon states that “[…] students in different
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graduated from. It seemed like money seemed to be a big issue for smaller schools than bigger schools. I ended up moving back to the smaller school later that year. Even though Jean Anyon’s work is good‚ I believe its starting to change because of my experience. In her essay‚ “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work‚” Jean Anyon(1980) writes about how social student education levels are not equal. She studied 5 different schools‚ in 5 different social classes‚ and wrote about how they differed and
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In the article “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work”‚ Jean Anyon writes about what she saw in five different Elementary schools in New Jersey from classes in fifth grade that she visited. The first two Elementary schools were working class schools in these two schools‚ students were told what and how to do work without any individual freedom. Teachers would usually shout at the students‚ and would have to ask to leave the room by making a pass. The type of student that would attend this
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Gatto and Holt In the essays “Against School” by John Gatto‚ and “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” by John Holt‚ both authors discuss their views on education and schooling. In both essays the authors analyze education and state their opinions about what is wrong with our schooling system. The authors explain the issues surrounding teachers‚ teaching styles‚ and curriculum in our schools. In John Gatto’s essay “Against School‚” he explains how he does not believe that forced schooling
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In their essays‚ both Anyon and Gatto’s made a similar and critical argument that schools have been teaching an "invisible curriculum". In his essay "The seven-lesson school teacher"‚ Gatto pointed out that the 12-year elementary education is no less than a jail sentence where "bad habits" (p.19) are the only curriculum have been learned (P.19). Anyon‚ in his "Social Class and The Hidden Curriculum of Work" also implied that there is a hidden curriculum being learned when students are only taught
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In John Gattos “Why Schools Don’t Educate” he addresses the issues of modern education. In his speech for “Teacher of the year” he explains that education is part of a social crisis. Which create students into robots. Due to the amount of control that the education system has. He continues by explaining the lack of time given to learn is irrational. Gattos example was the bell in school. Once you begin to comprehend a material the bell rings. And you must continue to the next. He offers solutions
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Andrew Redus Joseph Ptomey Thinking and Writing Research 1304 4 Febuary 2013 Rough Draft In the article “Dumbing us down: Weapons of Mass Destruction” John Taylor Gatto explains how today’s education system needs to be changed to focusing more on children’s interests instead of an institutionalized curriculum. He wants to revolutionize the school system to something similar to his education in a small town called Monongahela‚ Pennsylvania. When he went to school he was taught through
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