Class Differences in Achievement - Internal Factors

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a theory that working class children are inadequately socialised and as a result lack the culture needed to achieve within education
Cultural Deprivation
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the development of thinking and reasoning skills, such as the ability to solve problems and use ideas and concepts
Intellectual Development
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found working-class pupils scored lower on tests of ability than middle-class pupils. He argues that this is because working-class parents are less likely to support their children's intellectual development at home
Douglas 1964
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found the way mothers think about and choose toys has an influence on their child's intellectual development and that it was middle-class mothers who were more likely to choose toys which encouraged their child's intellectual development making them
Bernstein and Young 1967
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distinguishes a difference between the language working class and middle class families use and he believes that it is the elaborate code is most successful language to use as this is what is used by the education system and as a result puts middle c
Englemann 1966
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the development of thinking and reasoning skills, such as the ability to solve problems and use ideas and concepts

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Intellectual Development

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found working-class pupils scored lower on tests of ability than middle-class pupils. He argues that this is because working-class parents are less likely to support their children's intellectual development at home

Back

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Card 4

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found the way mothers think about and choose toys has an influence on their child's intellectual development and that it was middle-class mothers who were more likely to choose toys which encouraged their child's intellectual development making them

Back

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Card 5

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distinguishes a difference between the language working class and middle class families use and he believes that it is the elaborate code is most successful language to use as this is what is used by the education system and as a result puts middle c

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