Hegemony and Education Essay

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Hegemony Affects Men and Women Differently in an Online University Environment

The caliber of colleges and universities differ from institution to institution as well as from country to country. I have been to some in countries other than the U.S.A. And institutions that are non-profit and would say that these seem to be less hegemony-imbued than those that others and I have attended in the U.S.A. From what I have heard and experienced, problems of hegemony particularly seem to exist in the online for-profit universities that are notorious for offering degraded syllabus and programs, being more of a diploma mill and requesting money than offering education.

All universities and institutions that I have attended have slanted their education according to the politics of their country with curriculum heavily slanting to their specific country and criticizing those that opposed their country. I also found that, occasionally, the curriculum of these institutions ridiculed cultures that had historically challenged them, for instance in battles or other events. Great stress too was laid on the cultural achievements of these countries and it seemed to me that males were often the prominent figures.

The online for-profit institutions, however, from what I have read and heard from victims go a step further in that they center their programs around the university itself with student having to research for each and every course, for instance, how the course contributes to and expands the institution's aim / motto / values (if 'values' there are), and how the student can use the course to accomplish the institution's mission.

More so, the institution's politics (usually liberal) are dismally reflected in the paucity of its curriculum, both in choice of textbooks, in selection of teachers, in biased subject matter, and in the way that this subject matter is addressed.

Certain subjects are more immune than others. The humanities are particularly prone to this treatment as is the Human Service field. 'Hard' sciences, such as physics and the mathematics is, mostly, excluded.

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Hegemony, however, permeates into all nuances of these for-profit institutions from exclusive choice of lecturers (only those who condone them and represent their views) to treatment of students seeming (from incidents that I have encountered and heard) to privilege those who come from certain backgrounds, social circles, and races. Savvy social media skills and affluence are prized and these students receive more assistance and less exploitation than others.

Ethical issues that may arise from hegemony and how I would address those issues

It seems to me that hegemony is a result of the educational system becoming increasingly business minded, taken over in fact by the business making world, and this causes it to lose its direction and to become for-profit centered focused on gaining as much money as possible rather than providing its students with an education. When this is the fact, a slippery slope occurs where education becomes increasingly more corrupted and, led by businessman, enrolls mostly ignorant businessmen who accord with the university's role as their instructors:

An educational system that exclusively aims to transform people into commodities for consumption on the labor market must treat them in turn as passive consumers. The curriculum will consist of objects to be possessed in the form of facts and skills rather than objects of thought. (Elliot, 1992, 144).

This is actually the set of affairs in many of the American schools, particularly the for-profit ones that see their students as consumers, market to them as such, and, rather than focusing on education that may cause them to lose their consumers (or rather the money that they receive from foundations such as Sallie Mae), focus on making the syllabus as facile and simple as possible.

In fact, Saltman (2009), a regular critic of the American educational system and the hegemony inseparable from that system attributes decline of the American educational….....

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