Education in Nervous Conditions.

Education in Nervous Conditions. Education is often regarded as beneficial for people and necessary for advancement where people willingly accept to get educated. However in the case of Africa, education was forced on the population, especially western education. Although the Africans had an established medium of education, western education came to replace it and this education under the façade of benefiting the society was there to exploit the people. Western education destroyed the people's culture exploiting their intellect and their labor. The African's medium of education was there to inculcate the values and culture of the tribes and this way of educating people was seen as inferior and the Europeans believed in an eradication of that type of education: "The traditional African educational systems, in their various forms, served the needs of the African people much more than the colonial educational system ever could." Colonial education brought forward by missionaries was intended to make the local people westernized and follow or corporate with the western government: "colonial African education was not based on a desire to educate the African people, but a desire to have the ability to control the African people." Students who follow colonial education are torn between the western world and their own African world and they have this feeling of not belonging to

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How Great an Effect Did Urbanisation have On a Scottish Society Between 1880 and 1939?

How Great an Effect Did Urbanisation have On a Scottish Society Between 1880 and 1939? Urbanisation affected the lives of ordinary people in many ways. In the 1880s people in Scotland lived as much in the countryside as in towns and cities. But by 1939 most people lived in cities and towns. This fact alone shows that urbanisation played a huge part in changing Scottish Society. By 1939, 63.4% of a population of over five million lived in the cities. This meant that urban growth caused problems of crowded housing, and social problems such as health and safety. Between 1880 and 1939 many people lived in over crowded and squalid housing. Because of the rapid increase of workers to cities, tenement blocks were built, these buildings of four or five stories contained one or two roomed homes. In 1911 over half the country's urban dwellers inhabited one or two roomed homes. These accommodations produced conditions in which privacy was impossible and disease spread rapidly. Sanitation was appalling. Suburbs improved because of the Police act in 1892 and a public health act in 1897, which increased the power of local Government After the first world war, housing acts provided authorities with Government help, these were council housing of two or three story properties where families had their own front doors, bathrooms and toilets. However, in the 1930s overcrowding was

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The Functionalists explanations of the role of education

The Functionalists explanations of the role of education Functionalists believe that education is a very important part of society. They have a consensual view which means that they think everyone agrees about education and its roles. They think that everyone believes the way education is is the best way it could be and that it is run in the right way. Functionalists believe the education system is fair and benefits everyone in society. Functionalists believe all institutions in society are linked and that education is mainly linked to family, religion and the economy. This is a structural view. Functionalists think that the family used to control education, mainly by transmission and that there used to be no need for a separate institution. But now, education is the main agency of secondary socialisation, while the family still performs primary socialisation. Education takes over as the focal socialising agency after the family. Children are socialised into value consensus. Functionalists believe that before industrialisation there were ascribed positions in society, this means that what and who you were at birth were who and what you stayed, (for example, if you were born the working class son of a butcher, you would always be working class and would grow up to be a butcher), as in class, social status etc. and that there was particularism where personal relationships and

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How This Class Has Improved My Writing Skills

Archer 1 Lyndsey Archer English 110 2.11.02 Dr. Vickers Final: How This Class Has Improved My Writing Skills In the beginning of the year, my writing skills were pretty poor. I was not getting good grades on any of the papers I had written. Mainly I needed help in the areas such as organizing my thoughts and putting them down on the paper in order, using run-on sentences entirely too much, and using MLA format correctly. I worked on all of these skills every time I tried to write a paper as the semester went by. I feel I have improved on my run-on sentence use and using MLA format. Then there is the area of organizing my thoughts. It's not that I can't get my thoughts in order as I start to write. I feel I am a smart enough person to write a descent paper. It seems as though when I am writing, all my thoughts rush into my head at once. I have devised a plan for this. Before I begin to write, I write down all of the possible thoughts I could have on the particular topic I am writing on. My high school teachers called this process brainstorming. I never thought this exercise, which seemed like such a pain in high school, would help me out in my writing so much. I can now go off on as many tangents in my head as I usually do when I am writing, and still be able to write a good paper because I organized my thoughts before I began to write. Archer 2 Other skills I have

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My Fair Lady: What does the play show us of the society of its time?

What does the play show us of the society of its time? The working class were classified as upper working class or lower working class. They were either desperately poor or, former upper-class people who had fallen into poverty after being rich previously in their life for a variety of different reasons. Either way they were then expected to work hard to support themselves. The middle class were similar to higher class except less grand. They mainly depended on marriage and their money being earned by the inheritance of the males. There is not a huge difference between the quality of the people from the lower working and upper working class or middle class yet the working class are still looked upon by the higher classes as if they were less superior just because of their lack of education. "The English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days." - P16 Examples of the relationship between working class and middle class are displayed in the novel using mainly Eliza and her father as they crossover from working class to middle. Education enabled Eliza to satisfy her ambition to further her career and also increase the amount of opportunities she had open for the future. "I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of sellin at the corner of Tottenham Court Road." - P23 Only a couple of months of hard work and lessons from Henry Higgins enabled her to

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How important is class in voting behaviour?

How important is class in voting behaviour? One of the main factors for voting behaviour is class but how important is it. Conventionally. Class is seen in the terms of occupation. Those who are in manual jobs are placed in the 'Working Class' and are expected to vote fro the labour party. Whilst those in non-manual jobs are to be found in the 'Middle Class' and are expected to vote for the Conservatives. The majority of people belong to the working class sector and therefore ideally if class was the most important factor then Labour would when every single election. During 1945 and 1970 elections, of course this did not happen labour was not elected at every election. As they were not elected either many working class people did not bother to vote or the was some cross-class voting, some manual workers voting for the conservatives. There is a theory called 'Embourgeoisement' which means that with rising pay levels and better living conditions people are now starting to consider themselves as middle class when they were really working and then they would vote for the new ideal party the conservatives and the labour party would lose out. Despite a significant number of working class Conservatives, voters the voting during 1945-1970 seemed to suggest quite strong class alignment this is when people vote for whom they are supposed to according to their classes. In other

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Women's Education in China.

Introduction The term 'globalization' has been used to define various aspects of global expansion in the past two decades. It has been associated with key areas of change, which have led to a marked transformation of the world order. At the level of the economy, globalization has been associated with the trend towards increasing economic liberalization such as freer trade and more deregulated labour, goods and financial markets. Since the establishment of People's Republic in 1949, China has been struggling for development. Great changes have taken place in the way that development is achieved and promoted. As China develops its domestic economy rapidly in the world,the global economy has affected almost every area of Chinese social and economic policy, and the everyday lives of Chinese people. Also this effect of the economic reform has strongly influenced China's educational development. For a country, education is a very important because it develops human resources, improve productivity, and promote economic growth. Observing the changes in education, one of the most crucial phenomena to be considered is the participation of women in education. In China, a woman's education is one of the important indicators of a woman's social status, because a woman's employment and domestic status prospects depend heavily on the training and educational schemes through which she can

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One of the most significant parts of the Human Resources is teachers

Dissatisfaction ends up with..... One of the most significant parts of the Human Resources is teachers. They are essential resources in qualifying students at schools. So, they have a direct relationship with the students. That is to say, once a teacher is dissatisfied with his or her job, effects are likely to appear on his or her students. Therefore, in order to enhance the teaching system to end up with better qualified students, teachers' dissatisfaction must be terminated. Last year, a group of teachers demonstrated in front of the ministry of education building. They were demanding higher salaries, benefits or bonuses. In my opinion, they were showing that they were disagreeing with the pay system. The problem is occurring with teachers who are given the responsibility of educating the future pioneers. Being dissatisfied, especially in this part of Human Resources, is actually dangerous and expensive especially in the long term. Currently, teachers, in my opinion, started omitting some parts of the purpose of teaching. Why is that? Because they aren't happy with their salaries. Is it important to solve their problem? Absolutely yes, because the whole country is relying on schools to educate children and adults. That is, if teachers are dissatisfied with their job, the quality of teaching is likely to be poor and, in turn, students will gain poor education. Now, what

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This essay discusses the functionalist and Marxist approach to the relationship between education and economy.

Assignment 2 - Data response (f) - type question This essay discusses the functionalist and Marxist approach to the relationship between education and economy. The functionalist approach to education follows the same principles as all functionalist approaches to the study of society. It is concerned with the functions or role of education for society as a whole, in particular its contribution to maintaining social stability through the development of value consensus, social harmony and cohesion. It examines the links between education and other social institutions, such as family and the work place. There are 2 important writers for this who are Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) and the American functionalist Talcott Parson. They identified four basic functions on education which is passing on society's culture, providing a bridge between particularistic values and ascribed status of the family and the universalistic values and achieved status of industrial society, providing a trained and qualified labour force and selecting and allocating people to roles in a meritocratic society, and legitimizing social inequality. There are three related allocation roles: which are the socialisation role, the allocation role and the vocational role. The socialisation role argues that schools and training acts as a form of secondary socialisation that follows primary socialisation within the

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Should schools require their students to wear a school uniform?

Topic: School Uniform Summary: Should schools require their students to wear a school uniform? Context In some countries, e.g. Britain and many Caribbean states, it is common for school pupils to have to wear distinctive uniforms identifying them with a particular institution, especially to the end of compulsory education at 16. In others, e.g. France, the USA, it is rare for uniforms to be worn, although some private schools may retain them. In both situations the desirability of school uniforms remains controversial among students, parents and educationalists. As a result of this some schools have abandoned uniform at the same time as others have adopted it. pros Uniform helps to create a strong sense school ethos and a sense of belonging to a particular community. As such itit promotes discipline and helps to drive up academic standards, which is why a uniform is often adopted by sschools which are being reopened with a fresh start after being classified as failing. cons Uniform suppresses individualism and treats students en masse rather than encouraging teachers to recognise their different characters and abilities, and students to accept responsibility for aspects of their own lives. Uniform was better suited to an age of rote learning and military-style discipline than to the more exploratory and creative values of modern education - values which are

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