education and cultural deprivation
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- Created on: 14-02-17 14:18
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- cultural deprivation
- language
- working-class children grow up with the 'restricted code' which makes it difficult to communicate abstract ideas
- middle-class children have the 'elaborated code' which has more complex sentences and wide vocabulary which is favoured by the education system.
- attitudes and vales
- middle class parent take more of an interest in their children's education than working class parents.
- Barry sugarman (1970)
- four factors of working class subcultures:
- fatalism- 'what will be will be' children are less likely to move past challenges easily
- collectivism- wanting to be a part of a group rather than individually achieving
- immediate gratification- want rewards straight away. are less likely to make sacrifices which would benefit them later on.
- present time orientation- present is more important than futer and then don't set long term goals
- four factors of working class subcultures:
- intellectual development
- middle class children have more access to educational activities and toys whish make them start with an advantage.
- J.W.B Douglas(1964)
- found that working class scored lower in ability tests due to parents being less likely to support their child's intellectual development
- Bernstein and Young (1967)
- parent choice of toys effects a child's intellectual development greatly. middle class mothers bought toys encouraging thinking and reasoning
- compensatory education
- offers extra eductational resources to poorer areas in hope to tackle cultural deprivation. e.g. pre-school being introduced
- sesame street transmits attitudes and values children would need to achieve highly in school through a fun television show
- government schemes like sure start aim to promote physical, social and intellectual development while helping young children learn.
- some critics argue that compensatory schemes mask the real causes of underachievement, like social-inequality and poverty rather than help improve th situation
- the myth of cultural deprivation Nell keddie (1973) and Blackstone and Mortimore (1994)
- Keddie believes that the working-class has a different culture than other classes and aren't culturally deprived
- parents may be interested in their child's progress but my not feel comfortable in the working class part of the school
- language
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