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Anyon
Themes
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Possibility
Middle-class school
"school knowledge has real value, if one has 'enough' of it" (Anyon, 1981, p. 17).
Resistance
Working-class school
"In the fifth grades there was both active and passive resistance to teachers' attempts to impose the curriculum" (Anyon, 1981, p.11)
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"Another said, "it's not just academics; they need to learn to think. They will have important jobs, and they need to be able to think things through."
School should not be somewhere where creativity goes to die. Des[ite what some kids may tell you its not prison. Kids should be able to go to school to learn how to think and to let their imagination grow.
"She said the "demands" of "getting through the curriculum" do not leave her time to give the children "ex[lore" with manipulatable such as geoboards."
Teachers are forced to move on from one subject to the next because they do not have enough time to explore a subject further. The state's standards can sometimes cause teachers to have to quickly move on without providing in-depth information o one subject. This can also be negative for students who are struggling with a certain subject and cannot spend more time flying to learn it before being forced to move on to the next topic which will only put them further behind.
"By an increased awareness of past problems and the human conditions which cause these problems, maybe we can prevent what Arnold Toynbee pointed out, "nineteen of twenty-one civilizations have died from within and not by conquest from without. There were no bands playing and flags waving when these civilizations decayed. It happened slowly, in the quiet and the dark when no one was aware."
Schools are designed to teach kids to not make the same mistake we made. By showing kids what has happened in the past and the massive impact decisions can have on thousands of people whether that be good or bad.
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"Information knowledge, that's what you learn in school. Wise knowing is moral knowledge, its maturity. You learn in life."
This is an interesting way to look at knowledge. Especially for a child. Most kids don't look at things this way. Viewing knowledge as something you gain from experience rather than something that you get from school is a very mature way to define this.
"The rest said, "It depends, you could learn some stuff by yourself, but you could never learn to talk by yourself."
I thought this was important because this shows the nee that people have to be around other people. Even people who like being alone and being independent still need other people."
Abstract
The present article examines data on school knowledge collected in a case study of five elementary schools in contrasting social class settings in two school districts in New Jersey. The data suggest, and the article will argue, that while there were similarities in curriculum topics and materials, there were also subtle as well as dramatic differences in the curriculum and the curriculum in use among the schools.
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