Sociology- Internal Factors on Achievement levels
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- Internal Factors on achievement
- Labelling
- "Attaching a meaning to someone"
- Within Primary Schools
- Rist (1970) teachers labelled pupils using knowledge of background & appearance
- Those labelled fast learning = middle class- neat and clean
- Rist (1970) teachers labelled pupils using knowledge of background & appearance
- Within Secondary Schools
- Dunne and Gazeley (2008) produce WC underachieve-ment due to labels
- Underachieve-ment is normalised in working class pupils
- Becker (1971) teachers judged with how close they match to 'ideal pupil'
- Dunne and Gazeley (2008) produce WC underachieve-ment due to labels
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Teacher's expectations
- Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968)
- Children improved if they were 'spurters'
- Interactionist study (what people believe will have real effects)
- Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968)
- 1. Teacher forms expectation. 2. Teacher treats pupil accordingly. 3.Pupil internalises & believes they are exactly what the teacher expected.
- Teacher's expectations
- Pupil subcultures
- Differentiation- teachers categorising pupils
- Polarisation- pupils respond to streaming by moving towards one of two opposite poles
- Pro-school
- Pupils in high streams = middle class
- Gain status through academic success
- Pupils in high streams = middle class
- Anti-school
- Gaining status amongst peers
- Lacey- being in an anti school subculture creates self-fulfilling prophecy
- Low streams mostly working class = low self esteem
- Differentiation- teachers categorising pupils
- Pupil's class identities and the school
- 'Nike' identities
- Finding self-worth, status & value by investing in branded clothing
- Archer et al. Nike identities causes a sense of WC marginalisation- pushed to the margin of society.
- Finding self-worth, status & value by investing in branded clothing
- Symbolic Capital & Violence
- Working class as inferior, this reproduces class structures
- Working class pupils felt they had to change characteristics in order to succeed
- Withholding symbolic capital
- Habitus
- Dispositions of thinking, acting and being in a social class
- Middle class habitus favoured by school as it is superior and matches the 'ideal pupil'
- Dispositions of thinking, acting and being in a social class
- 'Nike' identities
- Streaming/ setting
- A to C economy
- Gilborn and Youdell (2001) stereotype notions of ability to stream
- Denies working class pupils knowledge and opportunity
- Focusing time and effort on those likely to receive 5 A*-C
- Gilborn and Youdell (2001) stereotype notions of ability to stream
- Separating children into different ability groups
- Self- fulfilling prophecy likely to occur when streaming
- Educational triage
- 1. Those who pass. 2. Borderline C/D students 3. Hopeless cases
- Working class = hopeless cases
- 1. Those who pass. 2. Borderline C/D students 3. Hopeless cases
- A to C economy
- Labelling
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