education Flashcards
What is Labelling?
When a meaning or definition is attached to an individual, based on stereotypes
What is Banding and Streaming
When pupils of similar academic ability are taught together
What is education ethos?
A school leaderships’ effort to shape behaviour needed for an active learning environment by setting common goals
How can education ethos be seen in elite schools?
Elite schools remind their students they are part of the elite and top social groups therefore they should be aiming for top universities such as Oxbridge
What is meant by subcultures in education?
Groups of students within education with the same behaviour and attitude to education, usually in response to how an individual is labelled by a teacher
What is material deprivation?
The inability for an individual to afford resources. Linking to the hidden costs in the curriculum allowing the upper classes to succeed due to their finances.
What is meant by Social capital?
Contacts an individual has to allow them to ‘open doors’ of opportunity.
Where can we see material deprivation having an impact of academic ability?
Private schools make 7 percent of schools in the UK yet nearly half of all students attending elite universities of Oxford are from private schools.
What is the meaning of cultural capital?
Inferior norms and values which increases the gap between classes, these can lead to an individual not achieving as a result of lower classes ‘Paucity of Aspirations’. An example is the affect of restricted and elaborate speech.
What is the Marxist view of education?
Marxist believe that education, like other institutions in society, is in place to create money for the economy. Three main functions are: replicate class inequality, legitimise class inequality, and the correspondence principle (how an individual is treated in school is how they are treated in the working world).
What is the Functionalist view of education?
Social solidarity by creating a homogeneous way of thinking, teaching skills for work, teaching social skills, role allocation
who are the Functionalist sociologists and their views on education
Durkheim= creates social solidarity and teaches specialist skills
Parsons= Meritocracy
Davis and Moore= role allocation
What is the Postmodernists view of education?
That education needs to be more flexible to fit individuals, as ‘one size fits all’ approach does not work
what was the New right’s view of education and how did they change education?
In 1979 Thatcher believed that education should aim to support economic growth and so the new right introduced the national curriculum. The new right also introduced parentocracy and Chubb and Moe introduced marketisation of schools by creating competition between schools.
What is the tripartite system?
The tripartite system was an education structure where students were tested with the 11 plus and placed in either grammar schools, technical schools or secondary modern schools based on their academic ability. Tried to introduce meritocracy but failed as upper classes had more cultural and material capital (replicated class inequality)
