Reasons for different educational achievement levels
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- Reasons for different educational acheivement.
- Class
- Cultural deprivation - Lower class students weren't stimulation cultural at a young age
- Douglas
- Speech patterns - Two types of language restricted (used by upper and lower) and elaborated code (used by upper)
- Bernstein
- Cultural capital - Knowledge and classical understanding that is valued by society (usually help by upper classes)
- Bordieu
- Cultural deprivation - Lower class students weren't stimulation cultural at a young age
- Gender
- Boys - underachievement
- Decline in labour market - Reduced amount of labour intensive jobs making boys lose motivation and stop trying
- Mac an Ghaill
- Peer pressure - it became uncool or girly to care about your education (risked bullying)
- Francis
- Laddish culture - Boys messed around and school was dominated by strong males and it was uncool to try
- Jackson
- Decline in labour market - Reduced amount of labour intensive jobs making boys lose motivation and stop trying
- Girls - underachievement
- Girls receive less attention in class and there was a bias against them
- Stanworth
- Sex stereotyping - influences females choices
- Norman et al
- Gender inequalities in subject choice - Might feel pressure into taking a subject they don't want to do
- Colley
- Girls receive less attention in class and there was a bias against them
- Girls - acheivement
- More jobs for women - girls girls more incentive to work hard
- Francis and skeleton - girls need degrees
- Changes in education - course work suited girls more
- Pirie
- Change in girls aspirations
- Sharpe
- More jobs for women - girls girls more incentive to work hard
- Boys - underachievement
- Ethnicity
- Racism amongst pupils - can effect confidence and make pupils fail
- Cline et al
- Ethnocentric curriculum - This means the majority past is taught and their ideas which could lead to ethnic minority pupils to feeling left out.
- Links in with Bordieus theory of cultural capital
- Ethnic stereotypes - Black boys seen to be disruptive
- Wright
- Racism amongst pupils - can effect confidence and make pupils fail
- Class
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