Defintions

Question 1

A-C economy

Answer 1

System in which schools ration their time, effort and resources making sure to concentrate on those pupils they believe as having potential to get 5 grades at A-C at GCSEs in order to boost league table position

Question 2

Banding

Answer 2

Form of streaming

Question 3

Streaming

Answer 3

Where children are separated into different ability groups. Then each ability group is then taught separately from all others for all subjects

Question 4

Comprehensivisation

Answer 4

All schools are the same, no selection, no elitism, just introduce local pupils info local schools

Question 5

Fordism

Answer 5

A type of industrial production based on a detailed division of labour, uses closely structured, low skilled workers-mass production

Question 6

Post-Fordism

Answer 6

A type of industrial production. A highly skilled adaptable work force. Able to respond quickly to changing consumer demands and produce number of niche markets

Question 7

Hidden curriculum

Answer 7

All those things learnt without being formally taught and often found trough the everyday workings of school e.g. obedience, alienation, socialisation

Question 8

Legitimation on inequality

Answer 8

Education making the inequality justified and the result of a favoured meritocratic system, looks like fair system with fair opportunities, ideology created to disguise it’s true cause

Question 9

Marketisation

Answer 9

The policy of introducing market forces of supply and demand into areas run by the state. Education is becoming a market, encouraging competition and choice by parents

Question 10

Myth of meritocracy

Answer 10

Society is based on principle of each person’s position in structure being result of effort and hard work. However, this is a myth, don’t get placed on merit, down to labels and expectations

Question 11

Parentocracy

Answer 11

Based on ideology of parental choice of school. Middle class parents may be at an advantage as they have economic and cultural capital

Question 12

Polarisation

Answer 12

A process that results in the creation of two opposite extremes. Pupils responses to schools on can create pro-school subculture and anti-school subculture

Question 13

Selection

Answer 13

The process of choosing and allocating pupils to particular schools, class, stream

Question 14

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 14

Form of labelling, prediction made about a person or group comes true simply because it has been made e.g teachers predicting some pupils to do badly, discouraging them from trying making predictions come true

Question 15

Restricted code

Answer 15

Simple and straightforward language, not complex and dominates the working class-education becomes more tough and more difficult to understand

Question 16

Elaborated code

Answer 16

More ways to talk, wider variety and expanded and elaborated language. It is inaccessible to poorer students as they are not surrounded by elaborated codes and culture

Question 17

Subculture

Answer 17

A group of people within society that share norms, values, beliefs and attitudes that are in some way different or opposed to mainstream culture