teacher labelling
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- Created on: 22-01-23 21:09
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- teacher labelling
- potentially based on hair/eye colour, ethnicity, social class and/or gender
- teacher could label student as smart/dumb/well behaved/ troublemaker
- becker (1971)
- discovered teachers judged pupils based on an image of the 'ideal pupil'
- key factors in teachers judgements were pupils work, conduct and appearance
- interviewed 60 Chicago high school teachers
- middle-class pupils seen as closest to ideal and working-class were seen as furthest and regarded as badly behaved
- dume and gazely
- 9 english state schools
- argue that schools produce working class underachievement due to labels and assumptions of teachers
- believed could overcome working-class underachievement
- class differences in how they dealt with underachieving students
- discovered that teachers normalised underachievement of working-class pupils and were unconcerned about it
- major reason was teachers belief in the role of the home background
- rist
- an American kindergarten
- discovered teachers used information about pupils home background and appearance to separate them
- fast learning middle-class neat and tidy sat on table nearest
- w/c grouped as cardinals and clowns
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