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What do schools teach?

Authored by Mark Grittner

Social Studies

12th Grade - University

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What do schools teach?
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which sociologist was NOT an author of 'Schooling in Capitalist America'?

Samuel Bowles

Karl Marx

Herbert Gintis

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This curriculum uses rules, punishments, and rewards to teach students to conform to expected norms.

Covert Curriculum

Secret Curriculum

Hidden Curriculum

Concealed Curriculum

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did researchers at the University of Oxford recommend a 10am start for the school day?

To allow time for young people to eat a nutritious breakfast.

To allow Parents to get to work on time.

To reduce screen time during the Covid pandemic.

To allow young people more time to sleep.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This sociologist thought schools were important places where people acquire 'social capital'.

Pierre Bourdieu

Charles de Gaulle

Marie Curie

Gustave Eiffel

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Garth Stahl found working-class boys valued this more than individual ambition and competitiveness.

Eco-friendly Investments

Cars and leather jackets

Equality and sticking together.

Tyrantical Intimidation

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of these quotes is attributed to W.E.B. DU BOIS?

“My love is thine to teach. Teach it but how, and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn."

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people."

"Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life."

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Erving Goffman wrote a book investigating the issue of 'institutionalization'. What was the name of the book?

Sanctuary

Asylums

Endangerment

Inequality

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