Back to School
Channel: LIVING SOCIOLOGY
Date: 11/12/2019

First Person, Plural on CFUV-fm, Victoria, BC 
Originally aired September 5, 2002

Laurie, Suzanne and Tish are three women who have lived life fully until now.  They each for their own reasons decided to pursue further education in their mid-40s.  This week we examine non-traditional students and specifically how gender and class contribute to the delaying of education and the decision to pursue further education even if it is late in life, giving a new spin to the words "going back to school."

Michael Harrington and Peter Drucker both have written about the gap between university education and the so-called "real world."  Harrington suggested that the problem lay in how little education was respected in the marketplace.  Drucker suggested that the problem lay in how little education prepared one for the market.  What are the consequences of creating accountable schools that cater to market needs over liberal education?  Is there any way to reverse this trend?  

copyright: Carl Wilkerson and Pattie Thomas

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