Cultural Deprivation
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- Created on: 19-03-18 19:14
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- Cultural Deprivation
- Focuses on class difference in achievement within state schools. Blames W/C parents and culture for depriving W/C children for essential cultural skills.
- W/C children do less well than M/C as they are culturally deficient.
- Cultural causes of underachievment
- Language
- Do not teach their children to speak for think in a way that suits the classroom
- Bernstein (1975)- M/C socialise with elaborated speech and W/C restricted code.
- Elaborated good foe education and textbooks and teachers M/C
- Working-class culture
- W/C subscribe to values that impede educational success
- Sugarman (1970)- W/C culture generally sees the world as an insecure place .
- More likely to seek short-term goals and immediate pleasure. more likely to enter paid worker than HE.
- M/C values stress being aspirational- sacrifice immediate pleasure for long-term planning.
- Parental Attitudes
- They lack interest in their children's education.
- Douglas (1964)- W/C parents less interested= children less motivated and ambitious. Measured parental interest by number of school visits.
- Feinstein (2008)- M/C parents more child centred. Reflected in greater personal investment.
- M/C parents
- Seek child rearing guidance
- Help with HW
- Praise their children
- Language
- Evaluation
- Stereotypes W/C parents as inadequate
- Ethnocentric- implies M/C parental culture is superior
- W/C parents less likely to visit schools as they work long irregular hours not because of lack of interest.
- Particularly neglects the impact of poverty.
- Peter Robinson (1997) argues that tackling child poverty is the most effective way to tackle underachievement.
- Focuses on class difference in achievement within state schools. Blames W/C parents and culture for depriving W/C children for essential cultural skills.
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