AO3 Education

Question 1

AO3 for Bernstein’s types of speech code

Answer 1

- ignores other factors of educational success such as teachers 
\+ however , Bernstein recognises both homes and school fails working class pupils

Question 2

AO3 for material deprivation

Answer 2

• the fact that some children from WC families do achieve suggest material deprivation is only part of the problem
• other factors maybe influential eg religious views
  + some argue that material inequalities have the biggest effect on achievement

Question 3

AO3 berieter and Engelmann

Answer 3

Indian pupils do well despite not speaking english at home

Question 4

AO3 Sewell

Answer 4

Not peer pressure but institutional racism

Question 5

AO3 Cultural deprivation

Answer 5

• it ignores strong black women
• ethnic minority students are not deprived but culturally different
• black students fail cause if racism not low self esteem

Question 6

AO3 how do pupils respond to labels

Answer 6

+Rather than blaming a childs background. LT shows how teachers sterotypes can cause failure

• danger that we see is its a result of teachers racism and not school racism as a whole
• danger of assuming that once we label,pupils will automatically fail victim to the self fulfilling prophecy

Question 7

AO3 of new right

Answer 7

• competition only benefits the middle class who can use their cultural capital
• real cause of low standards is social inequality , not schools

Question 8

What is the correspondence principle between school and capitalist society

Answer 8

• Following teachers instructions= following boss instructions
• lack of control over time tables = lack of control over pay
• competitions eg sports day= competitions eg job roles ( promotions )

Question 9

AO3 for boys and achievement

Answer 9

-research suggests that the absence of male teachers may not be a major factor in boys underachievement
Read studied the language of teachers and found two types: a disciplinarian discourse and a liberal discourse
Read found that most teachers use the disciplinarian discourse ( this is associated with masculinity ) to control pupils behaviour

Question 10

AO3 of schools

Answer 10

• post modernists argue that schools now produce diversity , not inequality
• pupils have free will and can reject the school ideology
• sees class as the most important factor , ignores others eg ethnicity
• feminists argue that schools also produce patriarchy