Exam 17: Education

By 2008-2009,approximately what proportion of Canadians aged 25-64 had completed some type of postsecondary education?

Discuss the significance of the increase of women in postsecondary education in Canada.What impacts might this increase have on public and private lives in Canada?

A highly educated country is always a wealthy country.

Twyla is a registered nurse (RN)who has been on the job for 20 years.While her job is safe because she is unionized,she notices that all new applicants for the same job are required to have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)degree.What process has taken place here?

Just after she entered high school,Heather began to develop a keen interest in environmental issues,so she spearheaded the school recycling program.She is often frustrated with many of her teachers because they do not seem to understand the importance of her program.What function of education is illustrated here?

Ray Rist's participant observation research in a kindergarten classroom demonstrated that the teacher streamed the children in different groups based upon which of the following social characteristics?

Men outnumber women two to one in attainment of which of the following credentials in Canada today?

What is the relationship between education,income,and employment?

How is homogeneity in schooling accomplished?

Phoenix manages to obtain good grades on her assignments and tests,despite having very poor attendance and thinking that school is a complete waste of time.What has she failed to embrace?

What do we call the trend whereby members of an occupation insist that people earn certain credentials in order to enter the occupation?

How does credential inflation benefit employers?

According to Bourdieu,schoolchildren are rewarded by how closely they affiliate with which of the following?

Students who are accepting of the hidden curriculum are twice as likely to continue on to postsecondary education in Canada.

Education systems direct students who have less developed academic skills into a future in the lower classes.What do we call this process?

Rupert is from an upper-class family and,despite his many advantages such as private tutoring,he cannot manage to graduate high school.What does his lack of success at school demonstrate?

Educational attainment is the learning or skill that an individual acquires and that is,in principle,reflected in grades.

How might Canada have overcome the problem of not having sufficient wealth to educate university professors in the early twentieth century?

Give a symbolic interactionist account of education,along with a critique of that account.

Eventually,it was universally acknowledged that the first step to achieving a highly productive economy is to create an educational system that is large enough to create a mass labour force and rich enough to train and employ an elite of researchers able to work at the cutting edge of modern science.