School as Social System by IBNATUL JALILAH YUSOF

ijalilah — 2020-11-01 07:49:07 UTC

Critical sociologists do not believe that public schools reduce social inequality. Rather, they believe that the educational system reinforces and perpetuates social inequalities arising from differences in class, gender, race, and ethnicity. In your opinion, do you agree/disagree that our current education system serves to maintain the status quo of a society. Justify your answer.

2020-11-01 08:01:33 UTC

Aneesa Jamal PPP203009
I agree- in specific reference to the Indian context. Curricula are defined, education policies outlined and teacher training designed by dominant majority. While often with benign intentions and given the difficulty of incorporating all identities present in a highly pluralistic society, the system perpetuates dominant culture.

2020-11-01 08:03:40 UTC

I agree. Our educational system adapts us to society. We learn cultural expectations and norms, which are reinforced by teachers, textbooks and classmates. DONG XINLEI MPP191142

2020-11-01 08:09:33 UTC

Agree to some extend. If education in tertiary is not cheap, those from lower social status cannot afford to study programme,especially those like medical etc. Only those who are from higher income or above average can afford to pay for expensive tertiary education. Thus those who wanna change their social status thru education can only work hard and get scholarship so that they can get into university and the programme that they want.

Benjamin Seow Jun Jie, PPP193048

2020-11-01 08:12:30 UTC

MOHAMAD IZHAM SHAH BIN HAMDAN (MPP191024)

Based on my current knowledge, referring to current education system, we can see that starting from primary school till secondary school, lots of schools are running with each respective education ethnicity-based system, including main school like SMK. Thus, it makes me agree that it should maintain the status quo of a society. Being fair with education opportunity for many ethnic makes them learn their own language, knowledge and related culture in school.

2020-11-01 08:12:30 UTC

Syaiful Izzhar MPP1811161
Saya setuju.. Kalau tengok pada kerangka sistem pendidikan di sekolah. Pelajar-pelajar di asingkan mengikut skor peperiksaan, bukan berdasarkan keupayaan, capabilities. Sedikit sebanyak mempengaruhi corak berfikir di luar sekolah dengan kecenderungan sebegitu. Begitu juga dengan silibus kokurikulum yang dipengaruhi/didominasi oleh certain race/gender.

Di peringkat tinggi pula menampakkan jurang pendidikan dalam kalangan masyarakat yang berpendapatan tinggi dan rendah. Orang yang berpendapatan tinggi mempunyai peluang yg baik untuk melanjutkan pelajaran ke Institut terbaik manakala golongan berpendapatan rendah pula tidak mendapat peluang. Macam panjang sangat la plak

2020-11-01 08:12:51 UTC

I am agreed. CANCEL

zhouzhengcong — 2020-11-01 08:13:33 UTC

I just wondering when we mentioned eductaion, school or university those key words, do we take some people into consideration, those who cannot support themselves for higher education even any chance of being educated.
Students around us studying in school are like, say privileged ones. If not everyone can be taken into consideration, how come the equality problem be a good question.

zhouzhengcong — 2020-11-01 08:13:44 UTC

MPP191212 Zhou Zhengcong

2020-11-01 08:18:50 UTC

I agree. this is because our country is different in various races, cultures and religions. The education system still focuses on comprehensive education throughout the country.

2020-11-01 08:20:37 UTC

Nurul Zulaikha (MPP1811154). I agree. In my opinion, our current education system does serve to maintain the status quo of society. For example, it can be shown through our primary and secondary school where most Malay students in SK and SMK, most Chinese students in SJK (C), and so on.

2020-11-01 08:20:58 UTC

I partly agree. Social status can only be reformed by education. Quality of life can be achieved only through education. But having to compete to get good education has been a struggle among lower income society. Inequality in opportunities to further education has to be highly looked into. Every performing students need to be given equal opportunity if we want to preserve a quality nation. Not everyone can afford good education through private schools/university.

2020-11-01 08:22:45 UTC

Agreed , although the education system in Malaysia is entering its era of globalization in line with the needs and developments of the world however until now we can still see Malaysia still practicing it. MPP191065

2020-11-01 08:23:00 UTC

MPP191064 Nur Mardhiah Binti Mohd Rashid, Saya bersetuju kerana dapat dilihat dalam sistem pendidikan, terutama untuk sekolah rendah dan menengah seperti SJK, SK, SMA dan seumpamanya.

2020-11-01 08:23:25 UTC

to some extent，bcs they use the same standards without setting different norms based on different races and cultures

Mou Li PPP203047

2020-11-01 08:25:55 UTC

Chen Hong ren AGREE MORE. There are still many child can not go to the public school in many reason. And the public have limited resource.

2020-11-01 08:26:31 UTC

"status quo of a society" to me, I partly agree. opportunity to get education should be equal. no matter what SES you are. Our current education system should provide more opportunity especially towards the low SES students. Do not use "kabel" Nurul Ain Saipudin PPP193029

2020-11-01 08:26:59 UTC

As the syllabus for public school education is the same all over Malaysia, adaptability is a major issue for those who are less fortunate. It is difficult to adapt as socio-economic class is one of the biggest factors to this social disparity and that is a major issue on its own. For example, students from low-income families might be confronted with educational disadvantages. Higher-income families tend to have more constant support for their children compare to those with lower incomes as there are constraints due to their circumstances.
-Nurainin Fasha MPP191075-

2020-11-01 08:28:53 UTC

Josephina Seow MPP191143
I am agreed that the current education system serves to maintain the status quo of a society. But the financial issue still is the main reason for this topic. I got a secondary friend smarter than I, but can't get the opportunity to further study. I got another secondary friend who got good financial background but not a good result in secondary school had graduated from the USA. The education system only can provide chances for those outstanding students instead of the middle or lower grade student.

2020-11-01 08:28:59 UTC

Social inequality is clearly shown in public schools. Be it SK, S(J)K, when there is a dominant race as majority, the opportunity to learn what is needed for certain race or religion is purely neglected. There is no equality nor opportunity given in public schools. As in private schools, all aspects are mostly covered. But how many can afford that. Lower income learners has to adjust with everything and expecting them to build a social system. It is one sided mostly. Education system and school need to reform. Teach everything to everyone. Let everyone know everything. After all this is a multiracial country. Why one is important than another.. all should be equality important right.

kenny1010kc — 2020-11-01 08:29:57 UTC

In my opinion, the lack of autonomy in deciding what courses ones will get after STPM and limited quota for each ethnicity to enrol in public uni actually place a student with low SES background a further challenge in changing their social status. For example, I heard some of my friends declared that they have no choice but to accept anything they get from the government as they are unable to study in private institutions with a high fee. As a result, they might not able to perform well in the course which they didn't interested and it limited their future career growth. Kenny Chin MPP191032

2020-11-01 08:30:42 UTC

Yes, totally agree with you Kenny.

chuahui — 2020-11-01 08:35:22 UTC

Chua Yi Hui MPP191169

From my point of view, I disagree that the education system serves to maintain the status quo of a society to some extent. For example, in the past, the school tend to categories students into the high performance class as the first class, and the poor performance class as the last class. With the class arrangement, it create a gap for the good and poor students and will have less interaction for them to exchange ideas and learn from each other being in a different class. With the class status label, the students can either build up confidence or be demotivated. In today, the education institution take the initiatives to remove this system and distribute the high performance and poor performance students in each of the class.

On the other hand, when we talk about current education system is maintaining the status quo, I do agree to certain extent. In the context of financial status, the parents with higher financial capacity will have the ability to send the children to a “famous” school or a school with better facilities or environment. They have the chances or opportunities to choose the schools that can provide a better learning environment or personal development for the children. If the parent is limited by financial condition, they could have lesser or to no opportunity to choose which education system or institution they could like to send the children to learn. Hence, mostly will send the children to the nearest school from home and the children might need to work on self-efficacy to break the social norms.

The topic is widely affected and shaped by various social factors, such as the social institution like family, social function like economic or politics, and etc.

2020-11-01 08:37:30 UTC

Muhilarasaan Arumugam - MPP191014

Yes I agree but at some point I don't. Based on the current education does serves to maintain the status quo as an evidence of there are many schools for different races and as a Malaysian we are allowed to make the decision in which school we could study in. It doesn't create any conflicts as it doesn't specify a certain race that is suppose to be in the certain school it gives citizens the freedom on making decisions and the kurikulum that is offered is suitable for the particular school and subjects offered. Government initiatives is proven in maintaining this ethnicity when the education institute doesn't create any problems toward citizens.
Helps that government provides to students in the city and village is what has shown as the amount of graduates yearly is students from all over Malaysia despite the place or work we are in.

However in the context of private institutions, the case is totally different as it does not provide many aspects as the government schools are. As we know it does covered majority aspects when it comes to education and certainly covered a quality education, unfortunately not all the students in Malaysia could afford to choose to be in it. Lower income citizens can't be blame as private schools only accepts students who are willing to study at a higher costs.

msivanes — 2020-11-01 08:59:44 UTC

Sivaneswary Manikam MPP191200 Social status or social quo being practice in our education system especially by practicing merit system to select students whom can enroll in public universities. Not all students from different ethic get in during merit system selection, end up they need either to study in private institution or else their dream became trash. We should not practice this culture in longer as all of them should be treat equally as they can obtain their education knowledge together and not leave out. Such tracking does have its advantages; it helps ensure that bright students learn as much as their abilities allow them, and it helps ensure that slower students are not taught over their heads. But conflict theorists say that tracking also helps perpetuate social inequality by locking students into faster and lower tracks. Worse yet, several studies show that students’ social class and race and ethnicity affect the track into which they are placed, even though their intellectual abilities and potential should be the only things that matter: White, middle-class students are more likely to be tracked “up,” while poorer students and students of color are more likely to be tracked “down.” Once they are tracked, students learn more if they are tracked up and less if they are tracked down. The latter tend to lose self-esteem and begin to think they have little academic ability and thus do worse in school because they were tracked down.

2020-11-01 09:03:05 UTC

Siti Aisyah Binti Abu Bakar
In certain extend, I believe it does promote inequalities especially in term of cultural understanding. Students that come from uni-culture schools sometimes tend to be less aware of the cultural differences between races.

2020-11-01 09:05:59 UTC

Nur Nazihah binti Ismail (MPP191175) Agree .Our education system is able to adapt to the various ways and assessments provided. As much as we learn how students adapt to the cultural norms reinforced by teachers today.

2020-11-01 09:14:38 UTC

Fitry Azrul bin Nor Saafri (PPP193066)

agree that our current education system serves to maintain the status of a society because from primary to secondary or university does not segregate students according to gender, race and ethnicity instead combine all at once in one class or in SJK (C) or (T) which only distinguishing one class from another is the level of achievement of a student himself.

2020-11-01 10:34:46 UTC

From my side, I do agree with what it mentioned in this topic. You know in early era, the related or teacher will base on students’ performance in class or in tests and put them in a not good place for ranks or reputation, which result in students will get much less interested in their study or put their study behind backs. For instead, due to the differences between girls and boys in development of talents or thing-solving field. They trend to divide 2 genders into one gender in one class, which is not beneficial to increase in skill so now almost all schools start to mix up all genders in a class. Like this in this environment where all students help each other and get each other’s strengths. MPP 191121 CHENWEI