Sociology Of Education Rhetorical Analysis

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Main Point
Matthew's purpose is to inform the significance of the 'educational imagination' within the 'sociology of education.' Through Durkheim's ideals, she strongly punctuates educators to see through broad, foreign perspectives, to become researches and to develop understandings of how the structures of Australian education came to be. She informs educators to be able to develop our sensibility to the theory of knowledge and to exercise the potential for a more effective education system with updated methods of teaching.

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In defense of Emile Durkheim's beliefs, Matthew tackles on the issues of 'social inequality' which is the unbalanced distribution of resources and opportunities due to an individual's position or status. Groups affected by this are of disadvantaged people, Indigenous people, and the minorities; she point is reflected by the socioeconomic factors, low employment, disabilities, etc. In support of her point, she relates this specifically towards the Indigenous people, that the government did not consider the transmission of social inequality onto the next generation. Hence, has led to a weaker or more focused route of sociological perspectives.

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Created in 2008, NAPLAN was designed for primary students (3, 5, 7 and 9) to take literacy and numeracy subject categorized exams. However, the intention of presenting the school's academic statistics led to the clear segregation of schools between those that have achieved well and have done poorly hence 'widening the gap' (Goss 2016). The fact that these results are reduced to a condensed measurement, inconsiderate of the socioeconomic factors goes against the purpose of the 'education imagination.' Furthermore, shows that the government disregarded the educational constructs within a classroom or school

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