Education - Internal Factors for DEA and Social Class + Key Concepts and Individuals involved

1. What is the correct definition of the 'Self-fulfilling prophecy?'

Where a prophecy is fulfilled
Where teachers label someone and then it becomes true
Where a prediction made about a person or group becomes true simply because it has been made
It is where a prophecy comes true due to fate

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They agree with it because of the fact that labelling occurs in the workplace as well as in schools due to capitalism forcing labelling upon us
They don't have any opinion on the subject
They criticise it for ignoring the wider structures of power within which labelling takes place. Labelling isn't just teachers prejudices but stem from the fact teachers work in a system of class divisions
They like the labelling theory and agree with it on all levels

Where a prophecy fails to come true
Where the labelling process failed
A prediction that prevents what it predicts from happening, this is known as; 'the prophet's dilemma'
Where a prediction does not become true, this is because the prediction was incorrect in the first place, this is called; 'the prophet's dilemma'

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