Labelling theory

-labelling theory - teachers prejudice & stereotypes leads to discrimination and maybe self fulfilling prophecy 

-informal curriculum - norms & values learnt in education but not always wrote down

-self fulfilling prophecy - teachers predictions become true 

-teacher uses label, pupils learns label been placed, pupil behaves to fit with label,teacher feels label is confirmed

-Hargreaves et al; interviewed teachers & observed lessons, found teachers classified pupils into types based on 3 stages, speculation (guesses made, working hypothesis), elaboration (working hypothesis confirmed or contradicted), stabalisation (teacher feels they know…