Education
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- Created on: 05-03-18 19:40
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- Education
- In-school factors
- Labelling theory
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- Streaming/ banding/ setting
- Smyth et al (2006) harmful effects on learner identities of being in lower sets
- Hidden Curriculum
- The things that pupils learn through the experience of attending school rather than the main curriculum subjects
- Bowles and Gintis (Marxists)
- The things that pupils learn through the experience of attending school rather than the main curriculum subjects
- Labelling theory
- Gender
- Language & textbooks
- Predominantly show white males in science text books
- Why girls outperform boys
- Feminism
- Sue Sharpe
- More career and educational ducational opportunities
- Francis & Skelton (2005) found that many girls have ambitious career plans with may looking towards jobs that require degree-level qualifications
- Gender socialisation
- Hannan (2000) conducted research into how girls & boys spend their leisure time
- Girls spend more time talking - have better communication skills than boys
- Hannan (2000) conducted research into how girls & boys spend their leisure time
- Labelling & self-fulfilling prophecy
- John Abraham (1986] asked teachers to describe a typical boy and a typical girl
- Typical boy= not particularly bright, likes a laugh and always attention seeking
- Typical girl= bright, well-behaved and hard working, quiet and timid
- John Abraham (1986] asked teachers to describe a typical boy and a typical girl
- Feminism
- Why boys underachieve
- Crisis of masculinity
- Mac an Gmail (1994) argued that their has been a crisis in masculinity due to the decline in traditional manual jobs
- Feminisation of education
- Boys overestimate their ability
- Francis, Barber and Dweck- girls underestimate their ability and work harder, boys overestimate their ability and think it will be fine
- Gender socialisation
- Crisis of masculinity
- Language & textbooks
- Ethnicity
- Tony Sewell
- Ethnocentric curriculum
- Education is notoriously white
- Ghetto culture
- Failed themselves due to the culture they lived in
- Ethnocentric curriculum
- Bernard Coard
- Schools systematically fail black pupils, barring them from an education that is rightfully theirs
- Tony Sewell
- Anti-school subcultures
- Paul Willis’ Lads
- The Macho Lads
- Hostile to school authority and learning
- Mac an Ghaill (1994) identified a range of school subculture - based on the sets students were put in
- Lacey - polarisation (bottom set = anti-school subcultures, top set= pro-school subcultures
- Usually working class students in anti-school subcultures
- Relationships
- Ideal pupil
- Becker
- The one who conforms to m/c standards
- Rosenthal & Jacobsen
- Tested the IQ of pupils in an elementary school and told teachers they would show rapid growth
- Came back to see they'd made the most progress - teachers expectations affect pupil's perforance
- The A-C economy
- Gillbourn & Youdell
- The publishing of the league tables - concentrating on the pupils that have the potential to achieve 5 A*-C's to boost the school's league table position
- The A-C economy
- Came back to see they'd made the most progress - teachers expectations affect pupil's perforance
- Tested the IQ of pupils in an elementary school and told teachers they would show rapid growth
- Ideal pupil
- Subject choice
- peer pressure - male gaze
- Teacher channeling
- Primary and secondary socialisation
- Curriculum and gendered subject content
- Gendered careers - media
- Functionalist views of education
- Generally positive view on education
- Durkheim
- Social solidarity
- Division of labour
- Learning of rules
- Davis & Moore
- Role allocation
- Parsons
- Education forms a bridge between the family and wider society by socialising children to adopt a meritocratic view
- Skills provision
- Education teaches the skills required by the modern industrial industry
- Marxist views of education
- Education is seen as an important part of the superstructure of society
- It reproduces inequalities and social relations of production in capitalist society
- It serves to legitimate those inequalities through the myth of meritocracy
- Althusser (1971) says that the main role of education is to transmit ISA values (ruling class or capitalist) disguised as common values
- Bourdieu (1977)
- Symbolic violence - where the working class are effectively duped in to accepting their failure and limited social mobility
- Bowles & Gintis
- The correspondence theory
- Suggests that what goes on in school corresponds directly to the world of work
- The correspondence theory
- Class
- Material Deprivation
- Working class houses lacking educational resources
- Gibson and Asthana
- Poverty is closely linked to underachievement
- Nearly 90% of failing schools are in deprived areas
- Cultural deprivation
- Bourdieu & Passerson (1977) suggested that m/c cultural capital is as valuable as material weath
- w/c parents less likely to be involved in things happening in school or things related to such as parents evenings
- Material Deprivation
- In-school factors
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