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3 Goals of education

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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3 Goals of education

  • Democratic Equality-schools should focus on
  • preparing citizens
  • Social Efficiency-focus on training workers
  • Social Mobility-prepare individuals to compete
  • for social positions

Democratic equality

  • sees education as a public good
  • prepare citizens for political role
  • promote:
  • -effective citizenship
  • -relative equality

Social efficiency

  • sees education as a public good
  • -prepare citizens to fill necessary market roles
  • invest educationally in the productivity of the
  • entire workforce

Social mobility

  • sees education as a private good
  • -argues education is a commodity
  • provide individual students with a
  • competitive advantage

major political difference

  • Positional:
  • democratic-from the citizen
  • social-taxpayer and employer
  • social mobility-educational consumer

education:

  • Both public and private-
  • democratic-purely public
  • social eff.-public good in service to private
  • social mobility-private good for personal 
  • consumption