Social Class and Educational Achievement
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- Created on: 01-06-17 18:34
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- Social Class and Educational Achievement
- External
- HOWARD - Poor diet in W/C students leads to more illness and absence
- REAY - 'Cost of Persistence', W/C more likely to go to local uni's and work part-time
- SUGARMAN - Different attitudes due to parents occupation, W/C are ......
- Fatalistic - What will be, will be
- Collectivism - Value being part of a group more than being an individual
- Immediate Gratification - Pleasure now rather than later
- Present - time orientation -Present is more important than future
- DOUGLAS - W/C parents are less interested and more interest was shown by M/C parents through parents evening and greater stimulus at home
- BERNSTEIN - M/C's use elaborated code, W/C's use restricted code but the education system uses elaborated code
- BOURDIEU - R/C decided what topics are worthy and cultural and economic capital can be transferred to educational capital
- GERWITZ - 3 types of parent following the introduction of marketisation
- Privileged Skilled Choosers - MC, economic and cultural capital
- Disconnected local choosers - W/C, restricted by lack of capital, less experience with schools
- Semi Skilles Choosers - W/C, ambitious for children, frustrated by system
- Internal
- BECKER - Teachers evaluate pupils on the 'ideal pupil' (Labelling Theory)
- ROSENTHALand JACOBSON - 'Self Fulfilling Prophecy' - Identified some of the students as 'sputters' and they excelled
- BALL - Teachers has stereotypical views of bands (1st - most able, 2nd - most difficult to teach, 3rd- Learning problems, least able).
- GILLBORN AND YOUDELL - 'Educational traige' and 'A to c' economy causing teachers to target certain students
- LACEY - Pupil subcultures evolve as response to streaming
- Differentiation - Teachers categorise pupils according to how they perceive them
- Polarisation - Pupils respond to streaming by moving to one of the opposing poles
- Pro School culture - M/C students in high bands, gaining status through academic success
- Anti- School subculture - W/C students in low bands and low self esteem gaining status through peers
- RIST - As as early as the 8th day of school children are labelled- wasn't based on ability but how much the child conformed the the teachers M/C values
- M/C students were 'the tigers' and W/C students were called 'the clowns'
- HARGREAVES -Three stages of typing/classifying students
- 1. Speculation - Judged on appearance, how they conform to discipline, enthuasium and ability
- 2. Elaboration - Test the hypothesis
- 3. Stabilisation - Difficult to see badly behaved students in a bad way
- External
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