Class and Educational Achievement

Question 1

What are Internal Explanations?

Answer 1

The factors within schools and the education system.

Question 2

What are External Explanations?

Answer 2

The factors outside schools and the education system.

Question 3

What is Material Deprivation?

Answer 3

• Insufficient money to purchase resources and services compared with other members of society.
• Educational context:
  
  • Private education, tutors, materials like Wi-Fi or
    textbooks.
  • Resources that make it easier to achieve success like
    a good diet, space to study at home ~ Hersch.
• Being unable to afford uniforms or trips can lead to students being stigmatised.