Equal Education
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| author | Richa Mittal |
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| contents | Equal Education Richa Mittal Bani Bhattacharya Educación Social capital cultural capital engineering education preserving social c1ass In educational research literature the role of education as a means for social upward mobility is quite well accepted. However, there are examples where education conserves and perpetuates social c1ass. Each year, after the campus placements, one comes across a familiar situation where sorne students get selected and sorne others with equal academic achievements get rejected. This event occurs when one has almost completed one's education. The problem that lies at the root of this observation is that students do not enter schoollcollege with equal cultural, social and economic capital. Teachers with their egalitarian values treat them as equals, making no distinctions among them. They ignore the obvious distinctions among students rather than addressing them, thereby, helping preserve these differences. The school teachers ignore, the college teachers ignore and finally the professional teachers also ignore the differences. ConsequentIy the differential in the cultural and social capital of students continues. To find out whether education preserves or bridges these differences the author studied the impact of annual family income, level of father 's education, level of mother's education, father' s profession, mother's profession, area of location of school and the medium of instruction at school on the performance of students in three different types of engineering colleges. The findings are discussed along with educational implications. The paper is conc1uded with suggestions for the educators and their renewed responsibilities in the light of findings. 2013 artículo científico 2014-3575 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317127652003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3171 Revista Internacional de Sociología de la Educación application/pdf Hipatia Press Revista Internacional de Sociología de la Educación (España) Num.1 Vol.2 |
| format | Artículo científico |
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| institution | Redalyc |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2013 |
| publisher | Hipatia Press |
| spellingShingle | Equal Education Richa Mittal Educación Social capital cultural capital engineering education preserving social c1ass Equal Education Richa Mittal Bani Bhattacharya Educación Social capital cultural capital engineering education preserving social c1ass In educational research literature the role of education as a means for social upward mobility is quite well accepted. However, there are examples where education conserves and perpetuates social c1ass. Each year, after the campus placements, one comes across a familiar situation where sorne students get selected and sorne others with equal academic achievements get rejected. This event occurs when one has almost completed one's education. The problem that lies at the root of this observation is that students do not enter schoollcollege with equal cultural, social and economic capital. Teachers with their egalitarian values treat them as equals, making no distinctions among them. They ignore the obvious distinctions among students rather than addressing them, thereby, helping preserve these differences. The school teachers ignore, the college teachers ignore and finally the professional teachers also ignore the differences. ConsequentIy the differential in the cultural and social capital of students continues. To find out whether education preserves or bridges these differences the author studied the impact of annual family income, level of father 's education, level of mother's education, father' s profession, mother's profession, area of location of school and the medium of instruction at school on the performance of students in three different types of engineering colleges. The findings are discussed along with educational implications. The paper is conc1uded with suggestions for the educators and their renewed responsibilities in the light of findings. 2013 artículo científico 2014-3575 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317127652003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3171 Revista Internacional de Sociología de la Educación application/pdf Hipatia Press Revista Internacional de Sociología de la Educación (España) Num.1 Vol.2 |
| title | Equal Education |
| topic | Educación Social capital cultural capital engineering education preserving social c1ass |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317127652003 |