Class Difference In Education

Question 1

What are the EXTERNAL FACTORS which effect class difference in education

Answer 1

Material depression
Cultural deprivation
The working class as deviant subcultures

Question 2

Why does MATERIAL DEPRESSION effect class difference in education

Answer 2

Lack of basic needs (income)

• POOR HOUSING: illness (miss content put them behind) overcrowding (cant do homework, put them behind)
• FEAR OF DEBT (can’t go to uni, so no motivation)
• POOR DEIT (no concentration)
• FIANCEE (can’t afford trips, equipment so miss out)

Question 3

How does CULTURAL DEPRIVATION effect class difference in education

Answer 3

Families lack certain socialisation so limits them in school.
-SPEECH ND LANGUAGE CODE; (BERNSTIEN)
Restricted Code, working class descriptive needs more explication.
Elaborated Code, middle class analytical. Spoken by teachers, so working class need more support.
-PARENTS EDUCATION; more educated parents have better discipline skills so can control children more, meaning they will behave more in the classroom. They also have higher expectations, which reflects in the classroom.
Higher educated parents have better jobs, so can spend the wages on tutors or equipment which puts those children at an advantage.

Question 4

How does WORKING CLASS AS A DEVIANT SUBCULTURE effect difference in class educational achievement

Answer 4

Working class area a subculture (a group with their own values) 
Their values don’t emphasise education

Question 5

What is FATALISM (external class difference in education)

Answer 5

Working class view that you accept your situation and make no attempt to change it, so don’t try at school

Question 6

What is COLLECTIVISM (external factors effecting class difference in education)

Answer 6

More worth while staying loyal to your group than trying to do better for yourself, so don’t try improve your life in school

Question 7

what is IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION (external factor which effect class difference in education)

Answer 7

Emphases enjoyment of the moment rather than looking ahead, so while in school have fun rather than look ahead,

Question 8

Criticism of WORKING CLASS DEVIANT SUBCULTURES

Answer 8

Not all working class students are deviant 
Many working class students are clever and go against the stereotypes

Question 9

Criticism of PARENTING STYLE

Answer 9

Children spend more time at school

Question 10

What are the INTERNAL FACTORS which effect class difference in achievement in education?

Answer 10

Teacher labelling 
Streaming 
Self for-filling prophecy 
Public subcultures 
Working class identities

Question 11

How does LABELLING effect class difference in education

Answer 11

Students judged on stereotypes and then treated how their stereotype would be.
So students who would normally be naughty or not clever treated different to someone who normally should be clever

Question 12

How does STREAMING effect class difference in education

Answer 12

When students are setted into groups depending on their grades.
However in school stereotypes play a part in streaming

Question 13

SELF FORFILLING PROFACY

Answer 13

Students act on their labelling

Question 14

How does PUPIL SUBCULTURES effect class difference in education

Answer 14

Subculture brought into class rooms can effect the learning an add to labels

Question 15

How does WORKING CLASS PUPIL IDENTITIES effect class difference in education

Answer 15

How schools react to working class identities. 
How the working class identities clash with middle class students and teachers in school.

Question 16

What is HABITUS (working class identities)

Answer 16

Your status in society 
Students have to have the upper class habitus to fit into school and understand the upper class teaching methods to get on well as it’s all upper class (hard for working class)