To label someone is to attach a meaning or definition to them.
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Howard Becker (1971)
Carried out an important internationalist study of labelling. He found that they judged pupils according to how closely they fitted an image of the 'ideal pupil'.
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What do Mairead Dune and Louise Gazeley (2008) argue?
They argue that schools persistently produce working class underachievement because of the labels and assumptions of the teachers.
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Ray Rist's (1970) study
From his study he found the teacher used information about the children's home background and appearance to place them in separate groups.
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What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
A self fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true simply by virtue of it having been made.
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What is streaming?
Streaming involves separating children into different ability groups or classes called 'streams'.
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What is a pupil sub-culture?
A pupil sub-culture is a group of pupils who share similar values and behaviour patterns. They often emerge as a response to the way pupils have been labelled, and in particular as a reaction to streaming.
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What is differentiation?
It is the process of teaching categorising pupils according to how they perceive their ability, attitude and or behaviour.
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What is polarisation?
It is the process in which pupils respond to streaming by moving towards one of two opposite 'poles' or extremes.
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David Hargreves (1967)
Found a similar response to labelling and streaming in a secondary modern school.
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John Furlong (1984)
Observes many pupils are not committed permanently to any one response, but may move between different types of response, acting differently in lessons with different teachers.
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What is habitus?
This refers to the dispositions or learned, taken for granted ways of thinking, being and acting that are shared by a particular social class.
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Sarah Evans (2009)
Studied a group of 21 working class girls from a South London comprehensive studying for their A Levels. She found that they were reluctant to apply to elite universities and that the few that did apply felt a sense of hidden barriers, not fitting in
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Boudieu (1984)
According to him many working class people think of places like Oxbridge as being 'not for the like of us'.
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Howard Becker (1971)
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Carried out an important internationalist study of labelling. He found that they judged pupils according to how closely they fitted an image of the 'ideal pupil'.
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What do Mairead Dune and Louise Gazeley (2008) argue?
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