Youth and Education - Summarised
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- Youth and Education
- Class Affects Academic Achievement
- Parental Attitudes
- Douglas
- Middle class parents are more likely to visit schools to discuss progress, so their child's academic success can be improved.
- Willis
- Studied a group of 'lads' who adopted traditional masculine roles and valued this over education, because the needed to be tough/manly to do manual work.
- King and Raynor
- Untitled
- Douglas
- Language
- Bernstein
- Elaborated and restricted code. Working class are less likely to understand elaborated code, but the curriculum is taught in this so they are disadvantaged.
- Bernstein
- Cultural Capital
- Bourdieu
- Believe that middle class children are more likely to have access to academic based things, like trips out to museums, therefore are advantaged over the working class pupils.
- Bourdieu
- Material Barriers
- Callender and Jackson
- Untitled
- Callender and Jackson
- Parental Attitudes
- Gender Affects Academic Achievement
- Attitudes
- Sharpe
- 70's - Girls wanted love and marriage whereas 90's - Girls want career and financial independance.
- Sharpe
- Subject Choice/ Curriculum
- Kelly
- Science is a boy dominated subject.
- Colley
- Science is a boy dominated subject.
- Colley
- Kelly
- Pro and Anti-School Subcultures
- Willis
- Studied a group of 'lads' who adopted traditional masculine roles and valued this over education, because the needed to be tough/manly to do manual work. Created an anti-school lad subculture.
- Willis
- Hidden Curriculum
- Skelton
- Some teachers may suggest certain subjects are more suitable for the different sexes.
- Skelton
- Attitudes
- Ethnicity Affects Academic Achievement
- Parental Attitudes
- Archer and Francis
- Untitled
- Driver and Ballard
- South Asian parents see their children as a useful resource so push them to do well and be ambitious.(Asian)
- Archer and Francis
- Language
- Modood
- Lack of fluency in English affects understanding, especially when it isn't spoken at home.(Bangladeshi and Pakistani)
- Modood
- Cultural Differences
- Sewell
- Black males are involved in a culture of 'hyper masculinity' which is anti-school.
- Sewell
- Institutional Racism or Labelling
- Gilborn
- Black males are negatively stereotyped as 'a threat' and 'disruptive' therefore these boys then become their label. (self-fulfilling prophecy)
- Becker
- Believes teachers hold an 'ideal pupil' label, white middle class, meaning anyone not in the label bracket is disadvantaged.
- Gilborn
- Ethnocentric Curriculum
- Coard
- Believes the curriculum used in schools is based on only one culture, British culture, e.g. English literature, language etc.
- Coard
- Parental Attitudes
- Class Affects Academic Achievement
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