EDUCATION 15 MARK WRITERS AND TERMS

Question 1

When was the Education Reform Act??

Answer 1

1988

Question 2

What is cultural capital?

Answer 2

the correct culture, knowledge and knowhow that middleclass parents have to pass onto their children.

Question 3

What is cultural deprivation?

Answer 3

a deficient culture with a lack of norms and vales needed to succeed in the education system.

Question 4

What is material deprivation?

Answer 4

living in poverty with a lack of material resources needed to succeed in education.

Question 5

What is labelling?

Answer 5

assuming knowledge/behaviour of someone and then acting as if that were true.

Question 6

Murray?

Answer 6

links to cultural deprivation, underclass have no male role models, are morally deficient and welfare dependant meaning they lack the culture to succeed in education.

Question 7

Sugarman?

Answer 7

links to cultural deprivation, immediate and deferred gratification. working class parents encourage immediate gratification which means their children should leave education as soon as possible so they no longer need to be disciplined. Shows they are being taught the wrong culture to succeed. The working class are also fatalistic.

Question 8

Lewis?

Answer 8

cultural deprivation, working class have a culture of poverty. Where they centralise drinking, smoking getting into fights etc, instead of the importance of school.

Question 9

Teather

Answer 9

As a solution to cultural deprivation, Children’s minister Teather introduced parenting classes to combat this culture of poverty. Parents were taught to have meal times together, strict bed times and more discipline.

Question 10

Diane Reay?

Answer 10

Research based on interviews with mothers of 33 children at two London primary schools. Found out that it was the middle class mother who had the most cultural capital that meant they had the confidence to speak to teachers and hire private tutors.

Question 11

Bourdieu

Answer 11

cultural capital, found that middle class children already had the cultural knowledge needed to succeed in education before they even started.

Question 12

Smith and Noble

Answer 12

Poorer families lack money for resources such as books and computers to help their children succeed in education.

Question 13

Goodman and Gregg

Answer 13

Poorer families have weaker learning environments for children. They are 5 times as likely as richer children to have weak learning environments.

Question 14

Hargreaves

Answer 14

Labelling. Halo effect. teachers label kids based on social class gender and ethnicity.

Question 15

What is vocationalism?

Answer 15

BTEC’S NVQ’S, applied a levels

Question 16

What do Postmodernists say about education??

Answer 16

education and educators are biased. what counts as ‘fact’ changes over time. This is known as discourse. What is right or wrong is also relative in this sense. Children need to be introduced to a range of ideas to allow them to develop their own views.

Question 17

Lyotard

Answer 17

Post modernist. rejects meta narrative or big explanations about how society works. , individuals are more concerned with themselves rather than the group.

Question 18

Usher et al

Answer 18

education off much more choice in type of school and parents can cnoose schools, there are more routes through education and there is more emphasis on work skills and service skills.