Education Flashcards
Scholars and studies
Gillborn and Youdell
A-C economy
* Teachers work with hose with potential
* They ignore those who will pass anyway and “hopeless cases”
Hargreaves
Stages of labelling
1. Speculation - teacher guesses the type of student they have
2. Elaboration - test this assumption
3. Stabilisation - teacher feels they “know” the student
Bowles and Gintis
Correspondance principle
* Schools reflect the workplace by being taught to be quiet and submissive
* Leads to a passive workforce
Mac an Ghail
Macho lads
* Working-class boys have an anti-school attitude and are pressured to act this way
* They are more traditionally masculine
academic achievers
Paul Willis
Learning to Labour (lads study)
* “Lads” were uninterested in school
* Saw the point of school is to “have a laff”
* They seal their future of becoming labourers reproducing the workforce
Becker
Labelling theory
* When a student is labelled they may live up to it (self fulfilling prophecy)
* Can lead to a master status (the main point of their identity)
Relateto Rosenthall and Jacobson (spurters study)
Oakley
Gender roles
* Certain subjects are gendered
* Girls do creative subjects (english, art, history etc)
* Boys do STEM subjects (maths, science, sports)
Rist
Tigers and Clowns study
* Working-class students are named “clowns” and placed furthest away from the teacher
* Middle-class students are labelled “tigers” and placed closest
* “Clowns” did worse in education than “tigers” - shows how social status effects educational achievement
Rosenthal & Jacobson
Pygmalion effect
* Some students were called “spurters”
* Teachers then focused more on these students
* Those called spurters did better in educational performace than others
Schultz
Human capital
* Functionalist
* Factors such as skills, knowledge, experience etc enable people to work
* Therefore they can be economically valuable
Fuller
Black teenage girls
* Due to institutionalised racism, even if they work hard, it doesn’t mean that they will suceed
