1. Class Differences in Achievement

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External factors
Factors that occur outside the school environment
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Internal factors
Factors that occur inside the school environment
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Cultural factors
norms & values; socialisation; attitudes to education; speech codes
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Material factors
housing; diet; course materials; income
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Bernstein: language codes
W/c = Restricted code (limited vocab / sentence structure) M/c & school = Elaborated code (wide vocab / sentence structure / more analytical)
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Feinstein: parents' education
parenting style; parents' educational behaviours; language & use of income
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Sugarman: w/c subcultural values
collectivism, fatalism, short-term gratification & present-time orientation
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Bourdieu: Cultural Capital Theory
Economic capital + cultural capital = educational capital
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Labelling Theory
The idea that teachers attach meanings / definitions to pupils based on perceptions
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Rosenthal & Jacobson: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
A prediction that becomes true simply as a result of being made in the first place
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Lacey: streaming
Where pupils are segregated by ability for all subjects
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Pupil subcultures
Where pupils form groups that may be pro- or anti-school
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Factors that occur inside the school environment

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Internal factors

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norms & values; socialisation; attitudes to education; speech codes

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Card 4

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housing; diet; course materials; income

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Card 5

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W/c = Restricted code (limited vocab / sentence structure) M/c & school = Elaborated code (wide vocab / sentence structure / more analytical)

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