How does social class affect educational experiences and outcomes?
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- How does social class affect educational experiences and outcomes?
- Home factors; cultural deprivation
- Lower aspirations and a lack of motivation
- Low rates of participation in further and higher education
- Parents' lack of interest causes a lack of motivation
- Lack of cultural capital
- Middle-class have the possession of appropriate tastes, attitudes and values which lead to material rewards in life
- Language differences
- Bernstein (1972); elaborated and restricted speech codes
- Culture clash between school and home
- Parents and school have different cultures, attitudes and values which causes a clash
- Lower aspirations and a lack of motivation
- Home factors; material deprivation
- Lack of resources
- Poor diet
- Can lead to illness and school absences
- Poor housing situation
- Inadequate school uniform
- Can lead to bullying and absences
- Poor access to school trips, computers and the internet
- Negatively impact on educational progress
- Lack of resources
- Poor housing situation
- School factors
- Labelling
- Working-class students are negatively labelled
- Streaming
- Placed in sets based on their perceived ability; working-class students are placed in lower sets
- Subcultures
- Curriculum
- The curriculum seems to revolve around middle-class knowledge and values
- Labelling
- Marketisation
- 1988 Education Reform Act; schools running like businesses
- Competition
- Examination results and OFSTED reports were published about the perfomance
- Parental choice
- Middle-class parents could 'play the system'
- Middle-class parents can move into catchment areas of better schools or pay for transport
- Home factors; cultural deprivation
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