Danielle's Argument: Purposes For Education by Divya Shanmugaraj

What is the Purpose of Vocational and Civic Education?

ds2245 — 2025-02-14 19:49:51 UTC

Vocational

ds2245 — 2025-02-14 19:51:15 UTC

Vocational education is a type of education that teaches children skills for jobs. The purpose of vocational education is to learn about employment so that people can get well paid jobs.

Civic Education

ds2245 — 2025-02-14 19:52:07 UTC

Civic education is an education type that teaches children about there rights, responsibilities, and duties as a citizen. The purpose of civic education is to learn how to be a good citizen.

Civic education helps get rid of inequality

ds2245 — 2025-02-14 19:53:49 UTC

People struggle a lot with inequality. So civic education teaches us how to treat people equally and helps reduce inequality.

Civic Agency

ds2245 — 2025-02-14 19:55:33 UTC

Education teaches civic agency because it helps you become a good citizen. It teaches you how to be fair and do things justly.

Learning up to 12th grade instead of 8th grade

ds2245 — 2025-02-14 21:44:54 UTC

Learning up to 8th grade doesn’t teach kids enough. The standards aren’t raised enough and they still haven’t learned everything that they need to get a job. There is a complex, higher paying employment world as well. With this information they won't be to go into this world. They also can't properly be responsible.

Vocationalism fixes inequality

ds2245 — 2025-02-15 21:22:35 UTC

Education is widespread which helps with lowering inequality rates. This helps because it teaches kids about employment. It gets them ready for jobs so that they can live life comfortably. It assures that there are equal opportunities for everyone.

Summary

ds2245 — 2025-02-15 22:02:41 UTC

Evidence and analyzation

ds2245 — 2025-02-24 19:16:39 UTC

Why going up to 8th isn’t enough; “CFE disagreed, arguing that the standard should be set higher. "Capable" civic participation, Judge Leland DeGrasse finally ruled, includes, for instance, the ability to make sense of complex ballot propositions and follow argumentation about DNA evidence at trial. The court agreed that "meaningful civic participation” and prospects for "competitive employment," not simply minimum-wage employment, demanded a twelfth-grade level of verbal and math skills and similarly advanced competence in social studies and economics,” (Allen 2). Children will have more advanced learning if the grade goes up to 12th Everything will be more meaningful and they will know how handle the world of employment more properly.

Evidence and analyzation

ds2245 — 2025-02-24 19:19:05 UTC

Broad dissemination fixes money status: "Broad dissemination of skills is expected to drive down the wage premium on expertise and compress the income distribution,” (Allen 3). The wide range gives a variety of skills for everyone to obtain and use in jobs. Money will be a lot easier to obtain. Vocationalism solves inequality because it makes it possible for children to get higher paying jobs.

Evidence and analyzation

ds2245 — 2025-02-24 19:21:09 UTC

Civic education reduces inequality: “The civic conception of education suggests a very different way to understand the link between education and equality,” (Allen 2). Civic education promotes a new way of thinking about how education can reduce inequality. The range of skills that civic education will give ensure that inequality is reduced. Equality makes us better citizens. So it is important to learn about through civic education.

Evidence and analyzation

ds2245 — 2025-02-24 19:22:02 UTC

Civic agency: “Such civic agency involves three core tasks. First is disinterested deliberation around a public problem. Second is prophetic work intended to shift a society’s values; in the public opinion and communications literature, this is now called "frame shifting.” Finally, there is transparently interested “fair fighting,” where a given public actor adopts a cause and pursues it passionately,” (Allen 4). Civic agency teaches you how to be unbiased, shift views, and how to never give up. People need to be fair, empathic, and determined to be a good citizen.

Why vocationalism fixing equality and civic education getting rid of equality are connected

ds2245 — 2025-02-24 19:31:31 UTC

Both of them promote equality and get rid of inequality.

Counter argument learning up to 8th grade

ds2245 — 2025-02-24 21:53:00 UTC

If children learn up to 8th grade they can still get a job. They can still get enough money. They know basic information that will let them perform simple jobs.

Evidence and analyzation for counter argument

ds2245 — 2025-02-24 22:02:03 UTC

State arguing that children should learn up to 8th grade: "the public schools had met their responsibility to enable children "to eventually function productively as civic participants.” Not coincidentally, the state argued that this education level was adequate preparation for minimum-wage labor," (Allen 1). State believes that learning enough for a minimum wage job is enough. They also argue that they should have enough information to learn how to manage in the world eventually. Learning up to 8th should be enough to survive in the employment world.

Reflection

ds2245 — 2025-02-25 16:26:36 UTC

Reflection

ds2245 — 2025-02-25 16:27:44 UTC