Mass Schooling

Examples of Mass Schooling in the following topics:

• Education and Liberty in the Developing World

  • Currently, there are more than 75 million primary- school-age children around the world who are not in school.
  • Currently, there are more than 75 million children around the world of primary school age who are not in school.
  • Currently, there are more than 75 million children around the world of primary school age who are not in school.
  • The most represented case is the spread of mass schooling.
  • Mass schooling has implanted the fundamental concepts that everyone has a right to be educated regardless of his/her cultural background and gender differences.

• Education and the Global Perspective

  • Currently, there are more than 75 million children around the world of primary school age who are not in school.
  • For example, according to UNICEF, an estimated 121 million children of primary-school age are being kept out of school to work in the fields or at home.
  • Education is becoming increasingly international, and mass schooling has promoted the fundamental idea that everyone has a right to be educated regardless of his/her cultural background.
  • School children at Imperial Primary School in Eastridge, Mitchell's Plain (Cape Town, South Africa)
  • Discuss recent worldwide trends in education, including mass schooling, the emergence of secondary education in the U.S., indigenous education, higher education, and online learning

• Coleman's Study of Between-School Effects in American Education

  • When black students were bused in to these schools, white parents began to move their children out of such schools in large numbers.
  • Although Coleman found that, on average, black schools were funded on a nearly equal basis by the 1960s, he also found that socially-disadvantaged black students profited from schooling in racially-mixed classrooms.
  • When black students were bused in to these schools, white parents began to move their children out of such schools in large numbers.
  • Thus, the mass busing system had failed: Black students would only benefit from integrated schooling if there was a majority of white students in the classroom .
  • The Coleman Report led to busing programs to help integrate schools.

• Bureaucratization of Schools

  • However, they were excluded from the school system by segregation laws.
  • In order to understand the bureaucratization of schools, we must understand the historical development of the school system.
  • Young workers were trained and organizations were built for mass production, assembly line work, and factory jobs.
  • These needs formed the basis for school bureaucracies today.
  • Young workers were trained and organizations were built for mass production, assembly line work, and factory jobs.

• A Multicultural Society

  • It is generally applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities, or nations.
  • Instead, it has been addressed primarily through the school system with the rise of ethnic studies programs in higher education and attempts to make the grade school curricula more inclusive of the history and contributions of non-white peoples.
  • In the United States, continuous mass immigration has been a feature of economy and society since the first half of the 19th century.
  • The educational approach to multiculturalism has recently spread to the grade school system, as school systems try to rework their curricula to introduce students to diversity at an earlier age.
  • For example, in 2009 and 2010, controversy erupted in Texas as the state's curriculum committee made several changes to the state's school cirriculum requirements, often at the expense of minorities: juxtaposing Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address with that of Confederate president Jefferson Davis; debating removing Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and labor-leader César Chávez; and rejecting calls to include more Hispanic figures, in spite of the high Hispanic population in the state.

• Mass Media and Technology

  • Since mass media has enormous effects on our attitudes and behavior, it contributes to the socialization process.
  • Television programs, movies, magazines, and advertisements are all examples of different forms of mass media.
  • Mass media is the means for delivering impersonal communications directed to a vast audience.
  • Media bias refers the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media.
  • Millions of deaths in an ethnic conflict in Africa might be afforded scant mention in American media, while the shooting of five people in a high school is analyzed in-depth.

• High and Low Culture

  • The distinction between the the "high" culture of the elite and the "low" culture of the masses has become increasingly blurred over time.
  • Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.
  • The blurring of the boundaries between high and low culture is one of the main complaints made by traditional intellectuals about contemporary mass society.
  • Following the work of the Frankfurt School, popular culture has come to be taken more seriously as a terrain of academic inquiry and has also helped to change the outlooks of more established disciplines.
  • Reevaluation of mass culture in the 1970s and 1980s has revealed significant problems with the traditional view of mass culture as degraded and elite culture as uplifting.

• Culture Wars

  • They wanted parents to have the option of sending children to private, religious schools (at state expense), and they opposed legalized abortion or equal rights for gay and lesbian people.
  • He stated that a culturally diverse society can be dominated by one class who has a monopoly over the mass media and popular culture, and Gramsci argued for a culture war in which anti-capitalist elements seek to gain a dominant voice in the mass media, education, and other mass institutions.

• Cooperation

  • An example of voluntary cooperation would be individuals opting to complete a group project for school when given the option of a group project or an individual project.
  • Communication enables simple acts of cooperation by facilitating parties' recognition that they have mutual interests and large acts of cooperation by organizing the masses.

• Violence in Schools

  • School violence is a serious problem in the United States.
  • For example, school shootings account for less than 1% of violent crimes in public schools, yet nearly every school shooting makes national headlines.
  • Finally, school violence tends to be higher in certain types of schools, the characteristics of which are listed below:
  • School-wide strategies are designed to modify school characteristics associated with violence.
  • Bullying is a common occurrence in most schools.