All Educational Sociology Concepts

A concept describing education's social dimension rather than an individual's cognition or a philosophical stance on education's purpose: the evolving capacities principle, which holds that a child's own right to exercise independence grows through development and should shape how education and youth programs treat them; the relative age effect, a documented bias in academic and athletic participation favoring children born earlier in a selection period; the latchkey kid phenomenon, describing children regularly left unsupervised after school; and the learning environment, the physical, social and psychological setting in which schooling actually happens.