Socioeconomic and ideological aspects of education. Introduction to the sociology of education 02.06-S2-EN-ML

1. Hypotheses relating to different forms of social responsibility of educational system.
2. Different kinds of education’s benefits for different social subjects.
3. Relations between years of education completed (the scholarship) and the knowledge that students acquire while in school (the knowledge-skills-attitudes set). Theses on schooling without learning.
4. Policy actions to address the crisis of education in some countries.
5. Social functions of education, their evolution and priority changing.
6. The conservatism and the liberalism as two main educational ideologies.
7. The relationship between education and social position or status.
8. Main theses referring to the overeducation as a phenomenon of the modern educational system.
9. The changes and the differentiation of supply and demand for young people to skilled jobs in different countries.
10. The study of James Coleman on equality and quality in education. The study of Cristopher Jencks on equality in education as a factor influencing the general social equality.
11. The impact of educational institutions on their students. The effectiveness of educational systems in motivating students to learn.
12. The harmful and/or motivating effects of competition in education.
13. Closing schools? The educational ideas of Ivan Illich and their evaluation.
14. Basic problems referring to the relationship between the education and the labour market.
15. Basic problems referring to the relationship between the equality and the quality of education on its different levels or stages.
16. Basic problems referring to the relationship between the education and the social change.
17. Perceiving differences and similarities in international comparisons and concluding from them (OECD reports Education at a Glance).
18. Basic features of multicultural education and ways to implement them to national educational systems.