A group organised around a set of values, attitudes and behaviour in oppositions to the main aims of a school
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Banding
A means of ensuring the pupil intake of schools has a spread of pupils drawn from all ability bands by dividing students into different groups
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Educational Triage
The way that schools divide students into 3 groups- those likely to succeed in exams regardless (A* to C), those with a chance of succeeding with help ( C/D), and those with little chance of success regardless.
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Halo Effect
When pupils become favourably or unfavourably stereotyped on the basis of earlier impressions by the teacher, and are rewarded and favoured or penalised in future teacher-student encounters.
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‘Ideal Pupil’
The student who behaves as a hard-working, high achieving, good listener
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Interactionism
A theoretical perspective that focuses on the everyday interactions between individuals as the basis for the development of society
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Labelling Theory
Defining a person or group in a certain way- giving them a label
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Pivotal Identity
A core identity providing a pivot which teachers use to interpret and reinterpret classroom events and student behaviour.
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Pro-school subculture
A group organised around a set of values, attitudes and behaviour which generally conforms to the academic aims, ethos and rules of a school.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
People acting in response to predictions of their behaviour, thereby making the predictions come true
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Setting
A system of dividing school students into groups of the same ability in particular subjects
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Stereotype
A generalised, oversimplified view of the features of a social group, allowing for few individual differences between members of a group
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Streaming
A system of dividing students into groups of similar ability in which they stay for all subjects
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Subcultures
A smaller culture held by a group of people within the main culture of a society, in some ways different from the main culture, but with many aspects in common.
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Underachievement
The failure of individuals or groups to fulfil their potential - they do not do as well in education (or other areas) as their talents and abilities suggest they should.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
A means of ensuring the pupil intake of schools has a spread of pupils drawn from all ability bands by dividing students into different groups
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Banding
Card 3
Front
The way that schools divide students into 3 groups- those likely to succeed in exams regardless (A* to C), those with a chance of succeeding with help ( C/D), and those with little chance of success regardless.
Back
Card 4
Front
When pupils become favourably or unfavourably stereotyped on the basis of earlier impressions by the teacher, and are rewarded and favoured or penalised in future teacher-student encounters.
Back
Card 5
Front
The student who behaves as a hard-working, high achieving, good listener
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