Change of position between social classes e.g. a person who moves from working to middle class would be upwardly mobile,
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Equality of Educational Opportunity
The principle that all people should be provided with equal opportunity to succeed in education, irrespective of their sex, age, ethic or religious group,
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Streaming
Where chuldren are separated in different teaching groups based on their ability
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Meritocracy
Where people are rewarded on their talents and abilities rather than their social background,
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Immediate gratification
A preference for immediate pleasure or reward, without thinking about the longer term consequences e.g. going out with friends rather than doing work,
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Hidden Curriculum
All those things learnt at school which are not openly or formally taught e.g. obedience
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Formal Curriculum
All those things learnt at school which are openly or formally taught e.g. subjects,
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Cultural capital
Desired knowledge, language and social skills which aid student's success in school. Middle class parents pass this on to their children through trips to museums,
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Economic capital
Money or wealth which allows people to buy edcuational success e.g. private tutors
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Label
The preconceived idea of a student that a teacher has based on past behaviour, social background and ethnicty and may lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy,
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Labelling
A process of attaching a preconceived idea of a student on to them e.g. trouble maker
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Stereotypical
A preconceived, often one sided and negative, idea about a person based on opinion
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Self- fulfilling prophecy
Where students live up to predictions or labels placed on them by teachers,
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Anti school subculture
set of attitudes and values that go against mainstream or pro school cultures e.g. placing a high value on truancy,
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Marketisation
The process of opening up shcools to the free market by creating competition between schools e.g. exam league tables
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Ethnocentric
Concerning only one cultural prespective, excluding all others e.g. English History
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New Vocationalism
Educational policies that are concerned with imparting work based skills and qualifications
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Social control
The process by which society gets people to conform or behave as they want them to e.g. use of detentions
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Equality of Educational Opportunity
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The principle that all people should be provided with equal opportunity to succeed in education, irrespective of their sex, age, ethic or religious group,
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