Daniel Ponce
Professor Young
ENGW 1100
March 20, 2016
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum
of Work
Should someone education be based of their social class?
Jean Anyon wrote “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” in 1980. In
her research she finds out teachers use different type of teaching methods
based on the student social class. I disagree with her only because the
information she uses it out of date. The teaching methods use now a days have
change due to the fact that we have advance so much in technology the last
thirty-six years. Technology is now a big part in the teachers teaching methods
in every social class.
I used to attend Elizabeth Public Schools and it isn’t nowhere
near an “Executive Elite School” as Anyon refers, and the school gives out laptops
and IPad’s to every student. My teachers used to teach us with PowerPoints
lectures throughout the class way different compare to what “The Working Class
Schools” taught which was writing on the board. Working Class School’s now a days are more
advance than they were thirty-six years ago. They have more resources and more
money than they had before. For instance, “The children copied the teacher’s
sentences from the board.” (Anyon) It rare to see that in my school because no
one would bring notebooks because you would use your laptop the whole day. Also
we had smart board’s not regular boards. Her research is out of date because
The Working Class Schools have the same resources to be as good the Executive
Elite Schools.
Teaching methods have a lot of influence on the way you
grow as a student, but throughout Elementary, Middle, and High School I felt
all my teachers had the same teaching structure. Anyon shows different type of
teaching methods, but I feel as it changed throughout time. They might look
different, but I feel as it was all connected. “In the executive elite school,
work is developing one’s analytical intellectual power.” I feel we were taught
the same way growing up. I see similar methods to the way we were taught to Executive
Elite Schools such analyzing your answer, critical thinking, and strictness. The
data she is implying is not matching with her research because lower class
schools have progress so much throughout the years.
Anyon research is too old for the modern society to even
be acknowledge. As you seen social class doesn’t matter because my school is up
to date in technology and isn’t a upper class school. Maybe thirty-six years
ago it was different, but now lower class students have the same opportunity as
anyone else. It up to the student to take advantage of it.
