class differences in achievement
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- class differences in achievement
- cultural deprivation
- language: -speech codes - restricted and elaborated.
- give middle class the advantage, they feel 'at home' in school.
- Bernstein is a cultural deprivation theorist
- argues that working class pupils fail because the school fails to teach them elaborated code
- the myth of cultural deprivation?
- Keddie sees it as a victim-blaming explanation
- argues that working class children are simply culturally different
- they fail because they are put at a disadvantage by an education system dominated by middle class values
- argues that working class children are simply culturally different
- Keddie sees it as a victim-blaming explanation
- language: -speech codes - restricted and elaborated.
- parents education
- study by Douglas found that working class parents placed less value on education
- visited schools less often and were less likely to discuss their children's progress with teachers
- as a result, their children had lower levels of motivation and achievement
- educated parents support achievement by encouraging
- educated parents teach their children to read, draw and paint, help with homework and are actively involved
- working class subculture
- according to cultural deprivation theorists, the working class have different goals, beliefs, attitudes and values from the rest of society and this is why their children fail at school
- compensato-ry education
- education programmes such as pupil premium, aim higher, one to one tuition, sure start and bursary funds
- cultural deprivation
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