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Taylorism and the Factory Model of Schooling
Dr. Friesen's video on the Factory Model of Schooling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp-t_BmvoPU

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In table groups, write one response to the following four questions:

1. What is the purpose of this model of schooling? Peter, Christian, and Patrick The point of that was to get people ready for industry. Shows people how to do things, listen to something, to be able to stand in one spot for 40 minutes.

2. What does the physical space look like? Describe the school setting, what does this tell us about what matters? What is valued in this form of schooling? Peter, Christian, and Patrick Square rooms to make it look more like a factory, with motivational posters, posters about industry, educational posters, maps, bare walls

3. What is the curriculum? What is worth knowing? What is not valued? Pater, Christian, Patrick Learning tools of the trade and basic skills for the industry

4. How is success determined in this form of schooling? Peter, Christian and Patrick Knowledge of the industry,inquiry skills, social skills, the grades they received, and behave well

Write your groups responses below: 1. What is the purpose of this school? Jeremy: to make us ideal workers. That do not question what they are told Ben l: to make us all have the same amount of knowledge Ben m: it is designed to make us have a base knowledge. Not in-depth.

2. What does the physical space look like? Describe the school setting, what does this tell us about what matters? What is valued in this form of schooling? Ben l: boring, no decoration because that would make the student think about their things, not what they are told. Also, it would make it look good; it is a place to learn only. Jeremy: colorless. Few windows. So they don’t get distracted. Just educate what they need to know for the factory. Ben m: square. Dull. No imagination. Lack of thinking freely.

3. What is the curriculum? What is worth knowing? What is not valued?

Ben m: only core subjects; math humanities. Knowing how to work in a factory mainly. Ben l: strictly main subjects. Robots teach robots, meaning boring people who are told what to do teach people to be like them. No free thinking. Jeremy: inquiry is not valued. By that I mean that they do not question what they are taught. Machinery operation is worth knowing more than other things.

4. How is success determined in this form of schooling?

Ben L: success is determined by how fast and efficient products are built. Jeremy: success was measured by how obedient the clients/ workers are. Ben M: success was determined by the amount of hours that you had log on working.

1. · Learn at young age so introduced to industrialization so they could work immediately like bees · The purpose was to get little children to work immediately like robots · Taught skills such as listening to direction, hands on work

2. · There are enclosed classroms with many desks, with a forceful learning environment, which cannot distract the students. · Powerful learning with the students always on topic and continuously obtaining information.

3. · The curriculum would was very narrow minded about what was taught and there were only the main core subjects. · Information about places in the world that contributed to making a successful society. · Bad influencing places are not taught

4. · Grades 1. What is the purpose of this model of schooling? ** To prepare the students for their later life, which most likely will be working in an industrial factory. They do as they’re told and don’t ask questions, which is good in a factory, because the bosses want the money, and to make the money, they need efficiency, and the schools teach this through their discipline and style of teaching. Low quality working conditions, cement buildings, no windows, boring, square classrooms, no creativity, confinement, and also many, very strict rules. This tells us that it does not matter the environment your in and you just have to work. This is what they are preparing you for the labour life. The core subjects: math, science, social studies, language arts. It was necessary to learn all of these things. They also learned discipline. Things like art, music, dance, drama, and anything that was remotely creative were not valued. They didn’t really want the students to think for themselves.They learned what they needed to learn, and they did it as quickly and efficiently as possible. It was as if the back door of the school led to the front door of the factory. Success is determined in this form of schooling by the amount of information you can memorize, rather than the amount of information you seek to acquire. It is also measured by how well you will do with your acquired skills later in life, such as when you become a labourer. Success is also measured by grades.
 * 2. What does the physical space look like? Describe the school setting, what does this tell us about what matters? What is valued in this form of schooling? **
 * 3. What is the curriculum? What is worth knowing? What is not valued? **
 * 4. How is success determined in this form of schooling? **

-Cameron, Ben H, and Lyndon.