What is education and schooling?
5.1What the syllabus asks of you
- Formal and informal education: Differences between formal and informal education
- Formal and informal education: The official curriculum: testing, syllabus content and subjects
- Formal and informal education: The hidden curriculum: norms and values, punctuality, conformity, gender roles
- Different types of schools: The effectiveness of different types of schools, e.g.: state/public; private; selective/non-selective; single-sex; co-educational; faith schools; international
- Different types of schools: Strengths and limitations of each type of school
- Alternative approaches to education: Online learning
- Alternative approaches to education: Homeschooling
- Alternative approaches to education: Unschooling
- Alternative approaches to education: Vocational learning
- Alternative approaches to education: Progressive schooling
- Alternative approaches to education: Strengths and limitations of different approaches to education
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Chapter 5: What is education and schooling?
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All 4 questions on What is education and schooling?, untimed — answer on paper, then mark yourself against the mark scheme.
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4 questions
These are structured questions, answered in working rather than by picking an option, so they are not listed here one by one. The drill above puts each in front of you with its mark scheme to check against.