Cultural deprivation - home background

Question 1

Cultural deprivation

Answer 1

w/c do not have the language and values needed to do well in education.

Question 2

Linguistic deprivation.

Answer 2

Bernstein (1970’s):
Restricted codes - spoken by w/c people, vocabulary is narrow.
Elaborated codes - spoken by u/c and m/c and is more formal, textbooks are written in these.

Question 3

Strengths

Answer 3

Takes into account cultural factors.
Empirical evidence - showed boys storyboards and asked them to describe storyboards.

Question 4

Weaknesses

Answer 4

Out of date (Gaine and George)- this has changed with time.
Small, unrepresented sample - only 5 ppts, cannot be generalised.