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Education and Employment

Education and Employment. Compulsory education (Segregation from parent?) Education starting earlier, ending later Government ’ s commitment Erosion of standards Centralized control of education (in the past) Parental choice of “ best school ” (in the past)

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Education and Employment

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  1. Education and Employment • Compulsory education (Segregation from parent?) • Education starting earlier, ending later • Government’s commitment • Erosion of standards • Centralized control of education (in the past) • Parental choice of “best school” (in the past) • Schooling as marketization subject (now)

  2. Education & Employment -continued • Competition: schools & students • Extra parent coaching at home • Supplementary materials & classes • Emphasis & impact on achievement • Determining influence of social class • Post-compulsory edu. & unemployment • Education vs. training • Graduates’ reliance on parental support • Involved in paid work (both under- & developed countries): Teens pursuing luxuries?

  3. Free Time (Leisure) • Increasing privatized, but more supervision? • Moving from public spaces to private spaces • Parental anxiety (strangers, traffic, treats) • Living room furnished with technology • More likely to have own bed room • More confined, less independently mobile • High perception of risk, less going-out (autonomy)

  4. Free Time • Traditional outdoor / playground games appropriated by children • Earlier teenage rebellion • Maturing sooner & earlier sexual experience; earlier STD threat; • Drug, alcohol, crime (mostly minority) • Truancy & drop-out

  5. Blurring Boundaries?Between adults and children • More access to adult life vs. Increasingly segregated • Changing relations of power and authority between adults and children • “Individualization” process to be a citizen, and more voice heard vs.“Indiscipline” and moral collapse, so more authoritarian social polices

  6. Unequal Childhood • Social differences appear eroding, clearly in gender • Ethnic diversity increases • Polarization between poor and rich • Quality of life • Health • Education • Racism and family breakdown

  7. Ch 5: Changing Media • Children in the avant-garde of media development • Discussion: Four dimensions • Technologies • Institutions • Texts • Audiences • ‘Power’ of media • Interaction & Relationships between them (four above)

  8. Technologies • Technologies do not produce social change • Recent changes in media technology • Proliferation • Broader range of media & means of delivery • Convergence • Commercially driven & blurred distinctions between linear broadcast & interactive narrowcast • Access • Reduced access & distribution cost; • Boundary between production & consumption breaking down

  9. Implications • Children & parents as significant markets • Growing polarization: rich & poor • But still very few are exploiting the creative potential of digital media • National centralized control undermined • From public to private • Internet: Anyone publishing anything • Production & consumption boundaries blurred

  10. Institutions • Three institutional & economic changes • Privatization • Free market, monopolization, commercialized • Integration • Vertical & Horizontal • fragmentation • Production: casual labor, outsourcing, independent • Consumption: specialized, fragmented audiences • Media production: amateur & professional

  11. Texts • Changing characteristics of text • The very status of texts is changing. • Distinctions between video, games, movie… becoming irrelevant; Spin-offs of each other • Intertextuality • Interactivity • Integrated phenomena: Text and related commodities packaged & marketed

  12. Audiences • Empowered audience vs. Commercially exploited; Empowered vs. Surveillance • Greater choice for consumers • Repeated vs. new • Greater activity • Engaged & committed vs. Casual & distracted • Children’s rights: kids-only (Nickelodeon) • Not a zero-sum game: either Powerful or Powerless

  13. Back to the Boundaries • Two forces at play in the changes • Centrifugal(離心): fragmentation, differentiation • Centripetal(向心): centralized control • Relations between adults and children • Boundaries blurring; adult content for young audiences • “Youth” becoming an elastic category; becoming a lifestyle choice; trans-generation

  14. 期末考 • 1/16 (一)上午 10:10~11:50 • 可帶課本、字典、筆記 • 範圍：原文課本1~5章 • 題型：問答 + 申論

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