Interactionism and education

Hargreaves et al 1975: deviance in classrooms

argues that labelling comes in three stages

• Specualtion: makes guesses about the pupil based on appearence, likeablility and relationships with peers
• Elaboration: the teacher looks for evidence for previous assumptions
• Stabalisation: the teacher feels like they know the pupil and is not suprised by their behaviour

Gillborn and Youdel 2001: educational triangle

pupils are streamed based on ability and placed into different sets

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