DIVERSITY OF EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Written Assignment Unit 5

Armine Babayan:

Education in Context: History, Philosophy, and Sociology

University of the People

Dr Enild Conley

May 13, 2024

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Generally, every student witnesses a diversity of educational experience in the classroom which

are classified into different aspects, including profitable status, class system, gender, and race.

Although every nation in the world has an educational system set up in their own standards, the

quality and function of those systems vary. The difference is generally grounded on the

country’s wealth and how important the country spends on education. One can anticipate that

those countries that are well-developed with a strong structure will give the strongest

educational systems, whereas under-developed countries where basics similar as sufficient

casing, food, clean water, and a health care system are lacking. There are most high-income

countries that have formal training systems which are available to everyone, so the quantum of

training that an average person receives is nearly tied to the county’s position of profitable

development ( Crash Course, 2018).

Another difference in educational systems is the value placed on that education by that nation

and the systems set up to distribute that education within the country. Although the average

American spends 12 times in academy, Students in other countries, similar to South Korea, spend

further days in secondary school, 180 days versus 220 days independently ( 2018). Studies have

shown that nations ranked at the top of rankings in calculation and wisdom, had well- established

norms for education with clear pretensions for all students as well as teachers signed from the top

5 to 10 percent of university graduates each time ( 2018). Fresh factors impacting education are

social factors. For illustration, although the United States is a fat country, there's an inequitable

distribution of backing as well as quality preceptors. As a result, within the country there's a

difference in educational experience by children of colorful profitable and social backgrounds.

still, experimenters set up that limited coffers wasn't always a predictor of low achievement and

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that an element of adaptability was discovered in scholars similar as Shanghai and Singapore

that was much advanced than in U.S.A which researchers could prove a detriment to the

country’s frugality and social geography in the long- term ( 2018, National Public Radio 2010).

Added to this, researchers set up that the perception of the position of benefit that training may

give is different between ethnic groups in the U.S.A, where middle-class children as well as

working class children of emigrants believe that academic achievement will presumably lead to

professional achievement and advanced social status for them as grown-ups; again, nonages and

lower-class children didn't perceive foreign, due to job opportunities. Also, the students

passing as a good experience due to a positive relationship with a schoolteacher and a sense of

particular accomplishment had an advanced perception of the benefits and prices of schooling (

2018). Each of the factors support the conception of training as a sociological impact, the cause

of diversity of educational experience shows the significant relationship between the quality and

experience of a child If one applies the proposition of Structural Functionalism. Education is

related and how the functionality of the colorful corridor of social institutions can impact or

discourage students from the educational system. As bandied, a nation's position of profitable

solvency, a nation's capability to equitably distribute education, and a nation's capability to give

equal opportunity to its citizens will affect the existent’s educational experience. According to

Emile Durkheim, one of the authors of sociology, in a healthy society, all of these corridor work

together to produce a stable state called dynamic equilibrium” with all of the interrelated corridor

of society working together to maintain stability ( Parsons 1961, Theoretical Perspectives, 2010).

Still, there will be differences in all systems, including education, If those aspects aren't in

balance.nI believe that education should give several vital functions, including the more realistic

function of preparing scholars for life in society with introductory knowledge and chops

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demanded to serve as a contributing member of society and presenting occasion for advanced

study and training still, I feel that education should also support development of societies with

capacities, to promote cheerful expression, and encourage individualism

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Anderson-Levitt, K. M. (2005). The schoolyard gate: Schooling and childhood in global

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Crash Course. (2018, January 22). Schools social inequality: Crash course sociology #41. [Video

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