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Social Class And The Hidden Curriculum Analysis

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Education across all nations in the world continues to make progressive steps forward. Presently, with the evolution and radicalization of both formal and informal education sectors, education is presumably changing as a result of new ideas from the scholars. Notably, education stakeholders and governments have injected a lot of resources in order to improve and make education sector rather successful. However, despite the numerous attempts to better the education services, education has been faced by social class issues as presented by Pablo Freire in his book “Pedology of the Oppressed and Jean Anyon in her article “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum”. The two artists in their works have tried to address the relationship between poverty …show more content…

She tries to look at the level of services being offered in different socioeconomic status schools. She focuses on the student-teacher interaction in elementary schools. Anyon argues that learners from the poor backgrounds receive a completely different education curriculum from their counterparts from rich backgrounds. From the difference in quality of education and service given to learners from poor backgrounds and students from rich backgrounds we can conclude that wealth is very essential for students to get quality education service. From Anyon’s study, it was evident that students from rich backgrounds received comprehensive education with promotion of talents while the students from poor backgrounds were taught the basics of the content being taught. This meant the students from poor background were taught to differentiate between right and wrong but were not taught how it would help them. Therefore, we can deduce that social economic status is a social class issue affecting education. Today, most of the learners who are from rich backgrounds learn in different schools with their counterparts from poor backgrounds. Also, the quality of education where students from rich …show more content…

Both of the two scholars’ arguments still remain relevant up to today despite that many institutions of learning have failed to embrace the changes. However, one should not fail to mention that these curriculum which is student centered has been initiated by various schools where the leaners of the rich attend school, while learners from the poor backgrounds still continue to get the traditional banking system. This moreover continues to expand the gap between the rich and the poor with the rich being taught competent and talent promotion skills while the poor are being taught to handle simple tasks with simple guidelines (Adams, 119). Despite these social class issues being identified long ago, many institutions have lacked the capacity to ensure all learners in spite of their backgrounds get equal and similar type of education which encourages competency in skills and talent promotion. All social class issues in education as presented in Freire and Anyon’s works still remain relevant and valid today and therefore institutions of learning should embrace so as to overcome the social injustices (oppression of learners and segregation of learners because of their

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