Labelling
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- Created on: 20-05-13 19:09
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- Labelling
- Labelling Theory
- suggests that teachers judge students not on their individuality but on there characteristic ways reflective on gender, class , or ethnic group.
- Rosenthal and Jacobson
- Found that Mexican children suffered from low teachers expectations; Teachers expectations can effect the childs achievement
- The did a covert investigation posing as psyhcologists and presented fake IQ's
- They then saw that teachers favored the high IQ students and they did better on the exams
- Becker
- the perfect student in a classroom was presented to have middle class qualities and standard of behaviour
- Ball (2002)
- 'social barbarism' allows well of children to be separated from others who are 'less able'
- consequences
- lower class students are more likely to be found in lower sets
- Streaming tends to link to wider differences in test results
- The self for-filling prophecy
- Once labelled a child may start to act up to their label.
- when a child develops a behavior predicted by the teacher
- Labelling Theory
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