Ignacio Andrés, Carolina Braband, Anna Roig, Sila Salta and Candela Valls

AFFLUENT
WORKING - CLASS MIDDLE - CLASS EXECUTIVE ELITE
PROFESSIONAL

Old infrastructures and There is a big and new Modern building with a There are no black or low-
lack of materials. school with two playgrounds familiar environment with income children.
and a new wing. draws and pictures
Students and teachers everywhere. This school is not integrated
have an interesting In comparison to the with the rest of elementary
conflict. working-class, this motivates The teachers are from schools from the city.
The students say that and exposes different extra medium-high class and from
INTRODUCTION
they are not motivated activities and events for different parts of the state. Females teachers from
because the teachers instance basketball games. middle- and-upper-middle-
don’t play their role Most of the teachers are class backgrounds.
effectively. The teachers have women.
graduated and they live in Students have higher social
Most of the teachers are the neighbourhood. status than teachers.
men.

TEACHERS Teachers are reluctant to The teachers think that The teachers think that the They referred to knowledge
ABOUT work in these schools but knowledge is more students have to be able to as an intellectual process
KNOWLEDGE there is no pressure on “conceptual”. think on their own and they such as reasoning and
them to make students see the schools as a way of problem solving.
learn. They try to develop simple learning by experience.
“abilities” and work on the They pretend to teach
Compared to the intention to discover them Teachers try to involve children to think and reason
information given in the themselves. discovery and creativity, the correctly, and to come up
introduction teachers most important ideas and with valid conclusions.
think that the students They have different search more individually this
don’t show interest and methodologies but it also part related to each student.
are lazy. remains the importance of
the textbook but from They impulse them to create
another perspective, through different ideas as
 understanding that the books writing, reports and search
are made by professionals about information they found
and they include important interesting and emphasize
standard rules and content one with the others and
to teach pupils. contrasting ideas, but always
from a potential responsibility
and without being harmful.

More focused on the Their main goal is to Students are implicated on In general, the “demands” of
theoretical part and not understand what students the projects of the school “getting through the
on the practical. read, comprension. because the role that the curriculum” do not leave the
teachers play is so relevant. teachers time to have the
They offer the basis of In general, is something children “explore”.
CURRICULUM education as if they were more conceptual and it also One point that differentiates
the whole knowledge. includes listening, writing this from the others is the They want them to reason
and some other activities introduction of more and teach it as a “decision-
that motivate and potentiate economical references that making process”
students. would help them in the future.

STUDENTS Students don’t know what The question about what Students agree that Students talk about having
ABOUT knowledge is and the knowledge is, was knowledge is a personal an opinion that you know
KNOWLEDGE ones that think they know responded by most of the activity which involves inside yourself for sure and
what it is, have a wrong participants. thinking. They have an active it comes from the past and
concept. approach to the acquisition, if tradition.
Despite the fact they made a not creation, of knowledge.
Most of the students don’t relatively good idea about One of them explains that
want to go to college and knowledge, this was too there are two kinds of
these reasons are lack of much focused on the idea knowing: information
money, they think that that knowledge was knowing and wise knowing.
they are not able to something given. Information knowledge,
obtain the grades, among that's what you learn in
others. A little part of the students school. Wise knowing is
 suggested an approach to moral knowing, it's maturity.
their own creation of
knowledge and even one of Students are less creative
them affirmed that he would and independent thinkers
be able to invent something and have a passive attitude
on their own. toward the creation of
knowledge.
In conclusion, most of the
students have planned to go
to college.

Resistance. Possibility. Narcissism, extreme Excellence.

individualism.
The relationships Education is seen as The necessity of preparation
between teachers and important and vital. Thinking for oneself, for being the best, for top-
students are conflictive. externalize what is internal to quality performance.
They do holidays, patriotism individualize instructions,
Students commit activities and also theatre personal discovery & personal Children are more intense in
vandalism. plays. development and creativity. competition and
DOMINANT
performance and give a lot
THEME
They are not patriotics. They start to give importance “Humanitarianism”, do sth of importance to high
to going to the university and nice for sb today. student achievement scores.
that the effort is necessary to
achieve their goals. The antagonist to “the rich”.

They want to go to a “good

college”, so they have to try
hard.

CONCLUSION What basically The information has to be Knowledge is not only Knowledge is academic,
constitutes school from approved sources and conceptual but open to intellectual, and rigorous.
knowledge is: also this information discovery, construction and
combined with all the other meaning making. There is an attempt to teach
Fragmented facts, methodologies proposed more, and more difficult,
isolated from an outside have a unique aim, this is 2 ideologies: concepts than in any other
context and with any that students obtain good - The system itself will be school.
communication with grades and look for a future more humane by expressions
others or to activity or with a career and good job. of concern for the less Knowledge results
biography of the fortunates. not from personal activity or
students. - Individuals make history. attempts to make sense, but
from following rules of good
Also knowledge of thought, from rationality and
“practical” rule-governed reasoning.
behaviour that are
different processes where
students make more
mechanical works.

Sustained conceptual or
“academic” knowledge
has only occasional,
symbolic presence here.