3. Education Study Names Flashcards
Rosenthal & Jacobson
SCHOOL KEY FACTOR EXPLAIN
Teachers labels can affect pupil attainment
ONS (Gender)
In the UK, 67.6% of girls achieve a grade 4 or above in both English and Maths compared to just 62.7% of boys.
Girls have higher attainment in all ethnic backgrounds other than Irish Travellers.
Jackson
(Gender/Cultural)
Boys from laddish subcultures
Willis
(Gender/Cultural)
Boys are likely to reject the values of education and form anti-school subcultures
Mac & Ghail
(Gender/Cultural)
Masculinity crisis experienced by males due to their loss of breadwinning roles in society
Wilkinson
(Gender/Cultural)
Gender-quake experienced by women and girls where they have become more career oriented
Hannan
(Gender/Cultural)
Different leisure activities for boys and girls by canalisation, boys are stereotypically expected to enjoy sport whereas girls are expected to gossip and read and write which improves their literacy skills.
Sharpe
(Gender/Cultural)
Changing female aspirations. In the 1970s women’s only socially acceptable aspirations were marriage and having babies but in the 1990s women and girls became more career oriented.
Francis (Gender)
(Gender/Cultural)
Boys reject education
Ruddock
(Gender/Cultural)
Boys are less contientous in schools than girls
Mitsos and Brown
(Gender/School)
Teacher expectations of boys are poor
McCabe
(Gender/School)
Invisibility of women in the curriculum, this is called symbolic annihilation
Jones and Dinda
(Gender/School)
Teachers praise boys more than girls
Kelly
(Gender/School)
Found gendered roles in books and the hierarchy of the school
Oakley
(Gender/School)
Gendered language in school
ONS (Class)
42.9% of students who are eligible for free school meals achieve grades 4 or above in English and Maths compared to 71.6% of students who are not eligible.
Bourdieu
(Class/Cultural)
The working class lack cultural capital
ONS
(Class/Cultural)
Children have a 7.5% higher chance of poor attainment if their fathers also did badly at school
Sugarman
(Class/Cultural)
Working class is socialised into immediate gratification
Lewis
(Class/Cultural)
Fatalistic attitudes of the working class
Douglas
(Class/Cultural)
Working class don’t value education
Murray
(Class/Cultural)
The underclass are a group who have been poorly socialised not to value education
Bernstein
(Class/Cultural)
Restricted and Elaborate code
Feinstein
(Class/Cultural)
Family background, test scores at 22 months predict attainment at 26 years but children are overtaken by poor attainers from wealthy backgrounds.
Gillies
(Class/Cultural)
Middle class parents are able to use their knowledge and influence to benefit their children.
Strand
(Class/Material)
Black and white children from disadvantaged backgrounds didn’t make progress
Smith and Noble
(Class/Material)
Poorer parents cannot afford important resources such as books and computers
Goodman and Gregg
(Class/Material)
Poorer families have weak learning environments
Archer
(Class/Material)
Significance of clothing and style is crucial within the culture of young people, causing poorer groups to work long hours at their part-time jobs to be able to afford consumer goods instead of focusing on revision and homework. Bullying due to clothing style or brand can cause a decrease in focus and effort attainment in school
Becker & Rist
(Class/School)
Teachers favour middle-class children
Cicourel & Kitsuse
(Class/School)
Career advisors give different advice to working class and middle class pupils
Becker
(Class/School)
Teachers label working class children as failures
Ball
(Class/School)
Streaming is based on behaviour rather than ability
Goodacre
(Class/School)
Working class students are under marked by teachers
Hargreaves
(Class/School)
Halo effect: positive labels from teachers can override poor behaviour
ONS (Ethnicity)
In the UK, 88.6% of Chinese Students and 83.5% of Indian students achieve a grade 4 or above in English and Maths, compared to only 30.7% of Irish traveller students and 16.2% of Gypsy, Roma students.
Girls have higher attainment in all ethnic backgrounds other than Irish Travellers.
Francis (Ethnicity)
(Ethnicity/Cultural)
Educational achievement is a fundamental part of Chinese identity
Chua
(Ethnicity/Culture)
Chinese tiger parents
Swann Report
(Ethnicity/School)
Schools are institutionally racist
Gilroy, Swell, Modood and Mirza
(Ethnicity/School)
Racist attitudes among schools and teachers
Wright
(Ethnicity/School)
Teachers had stereotypical attitudes such as Asian girls being submissive and black Carribean boys as disruptive and having low academic potential
Hall
(Ethnicity/School)
Racism in schools lead to a culture of resistance
