Girls are bullied for being unattractive, not being dressed fashionably, and being physically overdeveloped (Shakeshaft and Barber 1995). In this chapter, the complex role of socialization within schools was introduced. What happens if teachers behave in ways that violate norms of morality? How do the Curricula of Different Provinces Compare on Controversial Subjects? 5. Other researchers have found that school sports coaches create conformity among their players by using misogynistic and homophobic comments to criticize players (Schissel 2000), further contributing to stereotypes about what is considered appropriate male behaviour. Peer victimizationrefers to physical and emotional abuse experienced by children from other childrenotherwise known as bullying. What were the characteristics of popular students? The girls argued that they were honouring a school tradition by wearing duct tape clothing to the game and that their attire was modest. Check Google News for recent news items of the underachievement of boys. Currie and Kelly (2006) observed that a common yet particularly severe form of name-calling that resulted in the most reputational damage was being called a slut, which results from perceived inappropriate interactions with or seeking attention from boys. Verbal abuse by the teacher (which consisted of verbal humiliation, name-calling, and yelling) was also found to negatively impact on students academic achievement. How do children decide what courses they will take in secondary school? They rejected the image presented by the preppy and popular girls, who, according to the skater girls, spent their leisure time shopping for fashionable, sexy clothing; applying makeup; flirting with boys; and talking about fashion and popular music (p. 145). In Chapter 4, for example, research by Willms (2008) was considered which argued that French immersion programs act as an informal streaming mechanism as French immersion students tend to be from significantly higher socio-economic backgrounds and less likely to have a learning disability. Elsewhere in Canada, zero tolerance policies are likely to be in place around specific actions. 2010). These students did not have a strong peer group identity with one of the established school peer groups and were at the periphery of the school social scene. The first of these dimensions is behavioural conformity. In contrast, teachers who had high-quality relationships with their students also reported significantly fewer behavioural problems in their classrooms (Marzano et al. Senior High English Language Arts; Program of Study. Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices. Their role in guiding the moral development of children, however, is often not simply limited to setting a good example. The outer ring consists of implicit moral instruction, where students are provided with moral exemplars in more sophisticated ways, such as through the curriculum of history and literature. Deviants, elites, and to some extent jocks were more likely to drink, while deviants were the group most likely to use marijuana. 2003). Plastic water bottles are banned from sale in schools in Ontario, for example, but there are no cases of students being excluded from activities for having them. Meanness also includes such behaviours as name-calling, ridicule, sarcasm, and giving other girls the silent treatment. Research on girls meanness has found that middle-class girls more frequently participate in this type of aggression because it is within this social class that the rules of femininity are the least flexible. In 2004, the Ontario Human Rights Commission provided evidence that since the adoption of the Safe Schools Act, a disproportionate number of students with various disabilities had been suspended or expelled (Bhattacharje 2003). Box 6.1 Teaching Morality through Example and through Curriculum, Do students look at teachers as moral exemplars? [S]tudents who aspire to careers that involve the development, production, teaching and study of more complex texts need to register in this course sequence. The table above shows the differences and similarities between the curricula of the two streams. First, it teaches members the skills necessary to satisfy basic human needs and to defend themselves against danger, thus ensuring that society itself will continue to exist. Behavioural conformityrefers to the types of self-regulations of the body that a student must control in order to fit into the school environment. However, there is some evidence that home schooled children are acquiring the rules of behavior and systems of beliefs and attitudes they need. Sokal (2010) found no evidence that computer-assisted literacy programs had any influence on Canadian males from low socioeconomic backgrounds who struggled with reading. For example, we learn the importance of obeying authority and School settings often place children in heterogeneous classes with large groups of children of the same age, where they participate in very specific school-oriented activities and events. There is one teacher for a large group of children and the relationship with the teacher is less personal than a childparent relationship. Students academic abilities are identified early in their academic career through the grades they receive. Within the family, children are socialized into particular ways of thinking about morals, cultural values, and social roles. One resigned and the other did not have his contract renewed.2. They have good self-esteem and are likely to display fewer behavior problems than do other children. In what major ways is the organization of the family different from the organization of the school? The Quebec researchers also found that the likelihood of a child experiencing verbal abuse from a teacher is also fairly consistent across grades, such that when students start a new year with a new teacher, they are likely to encounter the same kind of interactions. The students of the school are typically those who have had little success at other high schools and are considered at risk. The school has only three major rules: (1) attendance is mandatory, (2) outreach work is mandatory, and (3) mind-altering substances are prohibited. Within the outer ring, teachers are also included as exemplars of moral behaviour (see Box 6.1). Rules that students opposed were those that seemed pointless and arbitrary, particularly those around dress codes (Raby 2005). Table 6.1 Structural Differences between School and Family Settings. Not all schools in Canada have top-down rule making, as described above and criticized by Raby (2005). Placing students in special education, for example, requires that students be labelled as formally needing specialized assistance in order to succeed with curricular expectations (Hibel, Farkas, and Morgan 2010). Socialization in the Schooling Process, 7. Attempts to attract more males to the teaching profession have also been suggested as a solution to the boy problem. With school teachers being almost exclusively female, the feminization of schoolingargument suggests that schools are a place where male interests are not cultivated. 3. What kinds of resources are available on their websites? Identify how the role of the family differs from the role of the school in the socialization process. 2. Methods of socialization includes affective methods, operant methods, observational methods, cognitive methods, sociocultural methods, and apprenticeship Such findings have resulted in mixed reactions. While the media may tend to overemphasize the home schooling practices of the religious right in Canada and the United States, many parents in Canada choose to home school not for religious reasons, but because they are dissatisfied with the curriculum and/or the social environment of schools. In contrast, Pre-calculus mathematics is described as designed for students who will be continuing studies at the post-secondary level in fields related to mathematics and science. The gender gap between males and females in these subjects has narrowed considerably in recent years, with boys and girls performing about the same in both Canada and the United States (Lauzon 2001). Schools were not equipped to deal with students with social and emotional disabilities, and it was these very students who were disproportionately punished through the Safe Schools Act. The Safe Schools Act changed the policy to one of mandatory suspensions and expulsions and police involvement for particular rule infractions, provided that mitigating factors were taken into account. The dimension of socialization in which children learn about accepted perspectives and styles of expression, which reflect normative cultural values. Brunsma (2005, 2006) argues that in the United States, school uniforms have not been effective in addressing any of the issues they were intended to resolve. Students who wish to attend university need to take a certain set of academic courses, for example. It is implied, however, that more male role models in the classroom would improve boys improvementbut critics again argue that this view relies on a single vision of masculinity that is assumed to be the same among all male teachers (Greig 2003). In school, we also learn social skills through our interactions with teachers, staff, and other students. What kinds of topics do they discuss on their websites? Of course, popularity is a factor in social identity. The peer group becomes more important in adolescence as a source of emotional security and identity. The development of the generalized other, where a child learns to adopt the attitudes of the wider society, occurs in secondary socialization. The term zero tolerance first gained popularity in the area of law enforcement in the United States. While the characteristics of teachers in the process of socialization have been discussed above, another related feature that has been found to be associated with behavioural outcomes in children is school climate. A major objective of socialization in the school setting is to make a child socially competent. Sociology of Education in Canada by Dr. Karen L. Robson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. There is a certain body of knowledge that it is assumed children must know in order to be productive citizens and function in society. A dimension of socialization including the self-regulations of the body required of students to fit into the school environment, such as raising a hand or sitting still. Codes of conduct are of particular interest because they have been created under the auspices of improving school safety. Box 6.3 Zero Tolerance Policies in Canadian Schools. However, Brendgen, Wanner, and Vitaro (2006) found that teacher verbal abuse actually contributed to future adolescent delinquent behaviour in their 17-year cohort study in Quebec, which tracked children from kindergarten to age 23. The first part addresses the essential implication of race theory in adult education. Structural and Social Inequalities in Schooling, After reading this chapter, you will be able to. Other agents of socialization within the school were also discussed. Developmental socialization This type of socialization involves a learning process wherein the focus in on developing our social skills. There are many agents of socialization within the school environment, as indicated by Brints (1998) zones of socialization. Such negative relationships can put students at risk for social maladjustment as well as emotional and behavioural problems. They also found significant differences by province: students from Saskatchewan were much more likely to have university options than those in British Columbia, Alberta, or Ontario. Unless a child attended preschool or nursery, the structure and routines of the school day and the social relationships within the school setting must be entirely learned. In other words, they felt that they were more likely to receive disciplinary action for a rule infraction than White students. The deviants category encapsulated a very diverse collection of peer groups including burnouts, stoners, skaters, rebels, punks, partiers, and various alternative groups (including those defined by sexual orientation). Next: Structural and Social Inequalities in Schooling, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, Relationships broken at end of school year. Cohens examples of moral panics surrounded various youth cultures, particularly the Mods and Rockers of the early 1960s, and how the media portrayed them as a threat to established law and social order. WebSocialization is the cultural process of learning to participate in a social group. Meanness, on the one hand, is a trait that is spurned by girls, yet, on the other hand, is associated with popularity (Currie and Kelly 2006). Justifications for student dress codes often centre on arguments about maintaining a desirable school image, respect of ones self and others, and preventing distractions (Raby 2010). If activities and behaviours are gendered by teachers, this can have an impact on how children see appropriate female and male roles. Check provincial ministry of education websites for curriculum requirements and identify the differences between streams. Examine how official documents discuss the objectives of the different groups of courses. School administrators argued that the girls were in violation of the school dress code and that the practice had been banned by school because the duct tape outfits had become too racy in previous years.7. Lamb, Bigler, Riben, and Green (2009) have also found that if teachers teach children to confront and challenge sexist stereotypes, the results can decrease gender stereotyping behaviour, particularly in girls. Few male role models exist to make young boys interested in subject matter because school subjects and the entirety of the schooling environment are for girls. Activities such as reading are considered girl activities, and behaviours that are valued in a classroom environment, like sitting still and paying attention, are more associated with the behaviours of young girls than boys. 2004). Girls who were verbally abused by teachers during childhood were also less likely to finish high school (Brendgen et al. In this chapter, however, the main focus is on how schools contribute to the socialization of children. Such school environments have been found to breed delinquent behaviour and academic failure. Gender Socialization. Many researchers have called the reaction to perceived underachievement by boys a global moral panic (see, for example, Griffin 2000; Smith 2003; Weaver-Hightower 2003). What role does school climate play in student socialization? Effective school climates can positively influence students, despite their home conditions, race, gender, or social class (McEvoy and Welker 2000). If theyre breaking what theyre saying it means nothing to us then.1 A student at the competition shot a video of the dance which quickly became an internet sensation accompanied by much public moral outrage. Other research has suggested that cultural differences between childrens families and teachers result in the enforcement of zero tolerance policies for perceived minor infractions being viewed as excessive and impersonal by parents (Bernhard et al. The family still remains an important part of childrens socialization, even when they enter into school. Because computer use is seen as a masculine activity by both boys and girls (Sokal 2002, 2010), the use of computers in literacy teaching may neutralize the idea that reading is a feminine task. A significant part of a teachers job is to evaluate students and, often, to decide if a student is best suited for a particular ability track. Teacher education suggests that tailoring into ability groups allows for teachers to best match the learning needs of students. So far, it has been argued that children must adapt to features of school that are much different from their family environments. Raby (2005, 2008) and Raby and Domitrek (2007) argue that the school is a place where young people are socialized, but that top-down rule making assumes passive citizenship where students are relatively powerless. Studies have found that classrooms in the lower tracks have a variety of less desirable characteristics that undoubtedly impact on the learning of students such as less experienced teachers, less challenging coursework, and teachers with lower expectations of students (Katz 1999). How do they contribute to student socialization? The school rules, which must be followed by students, exist at the core. Box 6.2 What Do Academic and Applied Streams Look Like? 11. Raby (2005) and Pomerantz (2007) also suggest that dress codes are more likely to be enforced on more physically developed females or those who belong to stigmatized subgroups (e.g., Goths). Failure to be accepted by peers can be devastating for children, especially when it is manifested in acts of peer victimization and peer rejection. The Manitoba Ministry of Education describes Consumer Mathematics in the following way: The Consumer Mathematics curriculum emphasizes number sense, consumer problem solving, and decision making. Obviously, students in schools are expected to follow the school codes or face some type of reprimand. It was emphasized that children have to learn how to be students and that the teacher is largely in charge of not only subject-specific education, but also the teaching of morals and values. Outside of the core are two rings of moral instruction. The socialization of students through the use of school rules, including dress codes and uniforms, was also addressed. Social experiences are required to develop communication and social skills. They found that popular girls held the most power and displayed this power in their ability to police the adherence to numerous unspoken rules about other girls dress and behaviour. Individual subjects in school also have a tendency to be sex-stereotyped. If they do not go to school, how do they learn many of the basic skills that are engrained in the early years of the school experience? Internationally, girls have also been achieving higher standardized reading scores than males since the 1990s (see Box 6.5 for discussion). This begins at birth and continues throughout life; Successful socialization enables people to fit into all kinds of social groups. The first zone is called the core. Canadian research has produced similar results to its American counterpart. These preferred styles reflect normative cultural values about what is valued cultural knowledge. 7. Such factors may include the ability of the student to control his or her own behaviour (Daniel and Bondy 2008). Illustrate how peer groups contribute to the social identity of students. The names given to peer groups usually correspond greatly to their style of dress (particularly in the case of girls) and tastes in leisure activities. The ongoing process of learning the expected behaviours, values, norms, and social skills of individuals who occupy particular roles in society. As he works through arguments on the playground or resolves disagreements at his lunch table, his negotiation skills, problem-solving abilities and self-control develop, reports the Scholastic website. Sweet et al. In February of 2011, news broke that a six-year-old boy in Laval, Quebec, had been excluded from a school teddy bear contest because he had a plastic sandwich bag in his lunch, which violated the school rules on environmentally friendly lunch containers.5 Many environmental initiatives have been adopted by schools across Canada. This act supplanted the Education Act (Section 23), which previously allowed only principals to suspend students and school boards to expel students. Girls who wear tank tops and are reprimanded are at risk of being deemed immoral or slutty, and boys who violate certain rules aimed at them may be labelled gangsters. Pomerantz argues that implicit in many of the dress code discourses is the message that it is a females moral duty to keep herself covered. The school, like Won Ska, has a high retention rate. Overall, Raby and Domitrek (2007) have found that Canadian youth seemed to be generally supportive of rules they regarded as protective (rules prohibiting fighting and bringing weapons to school, for example), as long as they were presented as logical and enforced fairly in practice. That streaming has a positive effect on the academic attainment of high-ability groups has been documented by Ansalone (2001, 2003), although these gains are arguably at the expense of students in the lower-ability tracks (Sweet et al. It is not surprising that some teachers interactions with disruptive students can be hostile and critical. For example, in order for someone to become a doctor he/she The school setting is where the learning of the new role as a student occurs. Changes in specific school dress codes shift according to trends in popular fashion. Young people tend to build their social identities around specific peer groups, particularly in adolescence. Finally, the question of how home schooling affects the socialization of children was addressed. This process not only accustoms people to social groups but also Explain how relationships with teachers and the social climate of the school impact upon socialization. The role of teachers as a new authority figure in students lives was introduced earlier. Peer victimization and rejection have been found to be associated with psychological distress that carries over into adulthood (Ambert 1994; Bagwell, Newcomb, and Bukowski 1998; Roff 1990; Roth, Coles, and Heimberg 2002). As discussed in Chapter 2, while policymakers have made recent attempts to mix the vocational and academic trajectories together in high school in order to make them more comparable, students expressed that, based upon the feedback they received from teachers, academic trajectories were preferred and that vocational paths were stigmatized (Taylor 2010). Such instances spark debate around the role of schools in promoting particular social values. The role of peer groups was also discussed. The failure of children to be socially accepted by their peers. Standardized tests (discussed in Chapter 5) often exert considerable influence in allocating children into specific streams. More participatory models of school rule enforcement and creation do exist, however, such as in alternative schools (see Box 6.4). Additionally, this study explores the relationship between students online learning engagement and their online learning performance by taking the Secondary School Geography Curriculum Standards and Textbooks Research, a small-scale private online course (SPOC) of the geography education undergraduate course, as an example. An analysis of the relationship between character and citizenship education revealed that the overarching message was to promote assimilation into Canadian society (Winton 2007).4. Opponents of streaming note that those from disadvantaged and working-class backgrounds are disproportionately found in the vocational stream (Cheung 2007; Davies and Guppy 2006). Subject options are often streamed into applied or academic streams. Religion. As well, bully victims are often targeted for being too smart (Fried 1997) or below average intelligence (Olweus 1978) and being of a lower socioeconomic background (Bernstein and Watson 1997). The term streaming(also known as tracking) refers to the series of courses a student should take that best matches his or her abilities and aptitudes. Their focus on fashion and popular music largely shaped the popular girls lives and friendships with one another, as well as their relationships with other peers inside and outside of the school. In other words, inherent to such arguments are notions that only men can teach to male students and that the loss of males from the profession and the subsequent lowering of boys scores relative to girls is evidence of how feminization of the school is harming boys (Froese-Germain 2006). Canadian studies of the outcomes associated with home schooling are much less plentiful than in the United States, where the home schooling movement has been growing rapidly. Give examples of how each works. This curriculum is intended as preparation for calculus at the university level.. Students who exhibit higher academic aptitude are put with similar students into advanced courses where they will be challenged. While these groupings are very broad, they do point to the consistency of general groups over time and across English-speaking countries. For example, with small children, socialization tends to focus on control of biological and emotional impulses, such as drinking from a cup rather than from a bottle or asking permission before picking something up. Agents of socialization are the social structures in which socialization occurs. The styles were adopted by girls largely based on race, with White girls sporting the Britney look and the Asian and Hispanic girls wearing JLo styles. Previous explanations of males outperformance of females in science and mathematics suggested that biological factors predisposed males to be better at more technical subjects than females. Wotherspoon and Schissel (2001) give an account of an alternative education program in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan called the Won Ska Cultural School. The second dimension of socialization is moral conformity, which refers to the process of a student internalizing the preferred understanding of what is right and wrong.
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