Cultural Factors external
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- Created on: 24-03-13 16:21
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- Cultural/Class Factors (External)
- Hyman 1967 the values of the lower classes create a self impose barrier to learning.
- Low Value on education
- 'Play safe' Culture -no risks or investments
- Low Self Beleif
- Sugarman 1970 studied the way that manual/non manual work affects attitudes to wards learing
- WORKING CLASS
- Fatalistic- whatever will be will be
- Immediate gratification- pleasure now rather than later
- Present Orrientation- Only worried about now
- Collectivism
- MIDDLE CLASS
- Control
- Deffered gratification
- Future orientation
- Individualistic
- Working class children tend to 'live for today; with a 'carefree attitude' they have no carrer plan and give up opting for easiest route
- WORKING CLASS
- FEINSTEIN 2003 - Parental Suppourt &education
- NAtional Child Development Study
- nurseary improved acheivement
- Financal deprivation, little effect
- parental interest had an affect
- Achievement depends on extent that parents encourgrd & suppourted their children
- LANGUAGE
- Helps or damaghes childs thinking due to language used in homes
- Education and teachers operate with a middle class bias
- Bernstein 1972- language is linked to developing, understanding and thinking
- RESTRICTED CODE
- Short hand speach
- Short Simple Sentences
- Assumed element to it
- Meanings implicit
- Depends on gestures & expression
- Working class families are based upon relationships that are hierachal
- No negotiation over decisions
- no discussion or elaborate dialougue
- ELABORATED CODE
- Detailed
- Explanatory
- Illustrative
- Meanings are explicit
- think at deeper level
- abstract thinking
- greater explanations & analysis
- Middle Class families have rigid relationships and are entited to thir say, share decision making
- Troyna & Williams
- Shcools attitude is a t fault -language hieracy
- RESTRICTED CODE
- Troyna & Williams
- Shcools attitude is a t fault -language hieracy
- CULTURAL CAPITAL THEORY
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Middle class children with cultural capital are better equiped to meet demands of school
- Wealthy Children send their children to private shcool
- SOCIAL REPRODUCTION- schools reproduce social inequality, sucsess and failure is legitimated by social hierachy
- SOCIAL FUNCTION OF ELIMINATION-working class exam failure, self elimination choose to drop out and see unfair system
- CULTURAL REPRODUCTION- School reproduce dominent class, the powerful impose their definition of reality on others
- CULTURAL CAPITAL- knowledge, attitudes,values,language, tastes and abilities of the middle class
- ECONOMIC&EDUCATIONAL CAPITAL- qualifications
- KEDDIE
- cultural deprivation is a myth and is a victum blaming theory
- Children can not be deprived of own culture
- Working class is just culturally different
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Hyman 1967 the values of the lower classes create a self impose barrier to learning.
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