Interactionism: education
- Created by: sarah_mocha
- Created on: 27-03-16 21:41
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- Interactionism: role + function of education
- an understanding of what goes on inside schools is important for understanding behaviour and attainment in schools
- not focused on the effect that education has on other institutions
- want to know how individuals shape and are shaped by the education system
- the key to understanding how individuals make sense of the world is to understand the meanings they hold about it
- we are not products of the social system but active individuals
- Becker
- teachers develop an image of each of their students in a short period of time
- this image includes ideas about a student's ability and behaviour (which may be completely false)
- some students are defined as 'ideal' because they closely resemble the teacher's middle class view of what the perfect student is like
- this image becomes a label which may lead to self-fulfilling prophecy
- idea of self-fulfilling prophecy developed by Rosenthal and Jacobsen
- evaluation
- ignores the wider social context e.g who controls the school? what is the impact of material/ cultural deprivation?
- many interactionist studies are qualitative in nature and are small-scale + subjective
- is deterministic - it assumes students can't escape self-fulfilling prophecy
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