Relationships and Processes within Schools (Topic 2)
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- Relationships and processes within schools
- School Ethos and the Hidden Curriculum
- The ethos of a school is reflected in the hidden curriculum. Students can learn attitudes and values by participating in daily school life.
- In contemporary Britain, parents will asses a school on its ethos.
- The hidden curriculum refers to the norms and value unintentionally taught through the schooling system/ lessons.
- Teacher Stereotyping
- Labelling by teachers can contribute to the moulding of student's identities and can affect educational achievement.
- The stereotype held by the teacher can produce a halo effect or negative self-fulfilling prophecy and anti-school subcultures.
- Sex, ethnicity and class can all affect whether the teacher sees the student as an 'ideal pupil'
- Black w/c boys most likely to suffer teacher stereotyping.
- Labelling and Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Students may gradually bring their own self-image in line with the teacher's view of them.
- The difference between bright and slow students is created by labelling and leads to a positive or negative self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Rosenthal and Jacobson's study on 'spurters'
- Setting & Streaming
- Way of grouping students according to their ability.
- This leads to an unequal access to classroom knowledge and causes an inevitable fall in the studne'ts ability.
- Smyth et al found that students in lower streams or sets had more negative views toward school.
- Way of grouping students according to their ability.
- Educational Traige
- Schools put students into three groups. Achievers of 5 A*-C, bordeline C-D or hopeless cases unlikely to achieve a C.
- School processes and teacher stereotyping mean that hopeless cases are written-off.
- Schools put students into three groups. Achievers of 5 A*-C, bordeline C-D or hopeless cases unlikely to achieve a C.
- Sub-cultures
- Differentiation and polarisation
- Teachers judge students and rank them into different groups. This is known as differentiation.
- A consequence of differentiation is polarisation, the way that students become divided into 'poles'.
- Pro-School
- Conform to the academic aims and ethos of the school.
- Anti-School
- Culture of resistance, seen in 'macho lads' a sign of masculinity.
- Pupil's adaptions to school:
- Ingratiation: eagerness to achieve and please teachers
- Compliance: conformity but only want exam success; don't necessarily enjoy.
- Opportunism: move between teacher and peer approval based on which is more beneficial.
- Ritualism: conform but lack of interest
- Retreatism: not actively opposed but drop out from involvement.
- Colonization: take opportuinities as they arise to them but reject school for the things it forbids and express aggression.
- Rebellion: troublemaker.
- Differentiation and polarisation
- School Ethos and the Hidden Curriculum
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