class differences in achievement

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What are internal factors?
factors within education system
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What is an example of an internal factor?
interactions between teachers and pupils
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What are external factors?
factors outside the education system
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What is an example of an external factor?
influence of the home and family background and wider society
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What did the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (2007) find out?
that by the age of 3, children from disadvantaged backgrounds are already one year behind those of advantaged backgrounds and that the gap widens as they get older
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What is cultural deprivation?
when children aren't socialized adequately and so they lack the basic 'cultural equipment'
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Why is being culturally deprived a problem?
because it causes students to underachieve
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What are the 3 main aspects of cultural deprivation?
language, parents education, working class subculture
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What did Feinstein find out about educated parents?
they were more likely to use praise which encourages children to develop a sense of their own competence
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What is the restricted code?
used by working class famiiles. Shorter sentences, limited vocab and often unfinished.
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What is the elaborated code?
used by the middle class. Has a wider vocab and is based on longer, grammatically more complex sentences
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Who identified the different language spoke by the different classes?
Berstein (1975)
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Why did children have lower levels of motivation and ambition according to Douglas (1964)?
their parents didn't take interest in their education and gave them less encouragement
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What gives the upper class an advantage when it comes to good education?
able to buy resources/books
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What is a subculture?
a group whose attitudes and values differ from those of the mainstream culture
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What did Sugarman (1970) say were the four main aspects of working class subculture that act like a barrier to education achievement?
fatalism, collectivism, immediate gratification and present-time orientation
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