Mcdonaldization of education essay

Schools have adopted communicative approaches in teaching where the teacher is the facilitator with the students being the center of learning, which makes the students responsible for their learning through groups and discussions. This is reminiscent of McDonald’s of customer self-service in McDonald’s (Hayes et al. McDonaldization is also evident in the way students have been taught to write paragraphs and essays. According to most teachers, a paragraph is supposed to be composed of a topic sentence followed by at least three supporting ideas and a conclusion. Thus, essays become predictable, and a reader expects to find the topic in the first sentence, which makes writing predictable just as it is in the food franchise (Ritzer, 2009). However, the movement back then celebrated the differences between the genders and sought to divide labor across gender-specific lines.