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LABAREE, Part II (Conclusions (Credentialism (“As a result, we can defend…

- - - - Benefits the economy
        
        This gives me dissatisfaction. I need to change the way I am thinking. I never thought the school would train the workers, I thought we were there to learn how to read.
  - - - "... promises students that through schooling they can achieve anything within the limits of their own desires and personal capabilites" (p. 60)
      - "... social efficiency in education is a concern for all adults members of American society in their role as taxpayers." (p. 62)
      - focuses on training the workers
      - Liberal vs Conservative
- - - - Social Mobility
        
        "The aim of pursuing education is for the individual student to accumulate forms of educational property that will allow that student to gain an advantage in the competition for social position." (p.51)
        
        "The social mobility goal asserts that schools should provide students with the education credentials they need in order to get ahead in this structure (or to maintain their current position." (p.50)
      - Democratic Equality
        
        "There is a strong ideological tradition in American history that sees schools as an expression of democratic political ideals and as mechanism for preparing children to play constructive role in a democratic society." (p.43)
      - Social Efficiency
        
        "This second goal, which I refer to as social efficiency, has exerted its influence on American schools through structural pragmatism-operationalized within schools in the form of vocationalism and educational stratification.' (p.46)
        
        Schooling is an end goal
        
        Trade in "knowledge" for a diploma
        
        “If the goal of schooling is credentials and the process of acquiring these credentials is arbitrary, then it is only rational for students to try to acquire the greatest exchange value for the smallest investment of time and energy. The result is what Sedlak et al. (1986) call bargaining and Powell et al. (1985) call treaties--where students seek to strike a good deal with the teacher (less work for a good grade) and the teacher has a weakened rationale for trying to hold them to high academic standards" (p. 68)