Class Gap
- Created by: Jacob Keyte
- Created on: 01-05-15 09:32
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- Class Gap
- External Explanations
- Cultural Deprivation
- Many studies have argued that the values, attitudes and aspirations of the parents have an important effect on their children
- Working class parents tend top value education less then middle class parents, this has a negative effect on working class students in terms of there poorer performance
- Leon Feinstein argues that the main reason for working class children underachieving was their parents lack of interest in there children education
- Less likely to get educational tools to stimulate their thinking and reasoning skills
- Basil Bernstein- distinguished between elaborated and restricted code
- Many studies have argued that the values, attitudes and aspirations of the parents have an important effect on their children
- Material Deprivation
- refers to the lack of physical resources such as money, room,, equipment ,etc
- Smith and Noble - point out the importance of material factors in influencing class difference in educational
- Wealthier class parents can move into the catchment area of good schools
- Cultural Capital
- Is why middle class students are more successful, refers to the knowledge, attitudes, values, languages, tastes and abilities of the middle class
- Bourdieu- says it can be translated into wealth and power
- Cultural Deprivation
- Internal Factors
- Labeling
- One of the most important aspects of the internationalist approach to education concerns the ways in which teachers make sense of and respond to the behavior of their pupils
- Gillborn and Youdell - found that teacher are more likely to see middle class students entered into higher exams
- Banding, setting and streaming
- Found a tendency or the middle class students to be placed in higher groups and visa versa
- Teachers tend to have lower expectations of working class students deny them access to higher level of knowledge and tend to enter them for lower level examination tiers
- Marketisation
- Labeling
- External Explanations
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