Topic 2 of Education
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- Created on: 02-06-18 12:04
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- Class Differences in Achievement (Internal)
- Labelling
- Becker: teachers saw children from middle-class backgrounds as the closes to the ideal pupil
- Jorgensen: working class see the ideal pupil as quiet, passive and obedient whereas middle class defined them in terms of academic ability
- Primary School Rist: teachers used information about children home backgrounds to place them in separate groups or on tables
- Evaluation
- Interactions within schools can actively create social class inequalities
- Marxists agree that it recreates class divisions
- It assumes pupils have no choice but to be the label, they do not have to inevitably fail
- Interactions within schools can actively create social class inequalities
- Self Fulfilling Prophecy
- It is a prediction that comes true simply because it has been made
- Rosenthal et al: teachers beliefs about pupils had been influenced by supposed results and these beliefs were conveyed in the way teachers interacted with pupils
- Streaming
- Gillborn et al: working class and black pupils are more likely to be placed in lower streams continuing to widen the gap
- link to the publishing of league tables
- Educational Triage: those who will pass anyway, borderline C/D-targeted for help, hopeless cases
- Gillborn et al: working class and black pupils are more likely to be placed in lower streams continuing to widen the gap
- Pupil Subcultures
- Differentiation: the proccess of teachers categorising pupils according to how they perceive their ability and attitude
- Polarisation: pupils response to streaming by moving towards one of two extremes.
- Hargreaves: boys in the lower streams were triple failures, they had failed 11+ exams, been placed in lower streams and labelled as worthless louts
- Ball: abolishing streaming did not work as teachers found other ways to differentiate between pupils
- Pupil Responses
- Ingratiation: being the 'teachers pet'
- Ritualism: going through the motions and staying out of trouble
- Retreatism: daydreaming and mucking about
- Rebellion: outright rejection of everything the school stands for
- Pupil Class Identities
- Symbolic capital: pupils who have been socialised at home with a middle class habitus
- Symbolic Violence:the witholding of symbolic capital, it reproduces the class structure
- Labelling
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