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What are the criticisms of the 11+ exam?

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Benefited middle class students
Money bias
Gender bias
Could seriously dishearten a pupil

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What are some strengths of the 11+ exam?

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Provided potential social mobility

Promoted meritocracy

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Why did the New Right alter the education system?

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They claimed the current system was failing and standards had to be raised

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What did the New Right suggest be introduced to help the school system?

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The Market principles of competition and choice so that schools would compete with eachother

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What act was introduced by the New Right to help improve the education system?

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The Education Reform Act 1988

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What did The Education Reform Act (1988) introduce?

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Standardised tests for all schools

A national curriculum

Formula funding (funding based on pupil number)

Open enrolment

League tables

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What are the strengths of The Education Reform Act (1988)?

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Granted parents and children choice

Massively improved female education

Improved result’s

Improved standards overall

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What are the weaknesses of The Educational Reform Act (1988)?

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Began the privatisation of education

Caused schools to favour more pupils over quality

Limited choice remains for the working class

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What is Cultural Deprivation?

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Where a person has ‘inferior’ norms, values, skills and knowledge

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What are some INTERNAL reasons for girls improvement in education?

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More female role models

Girls are treated better in education

Feminisation of education

Introduction of coursework

Positive teacher-pupil interactions

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What are some EXTERNAL factors of girls improvement in education?

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The rise of feminism

Changes to the job market

Female role models

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What are some INTERNAL reasons for boys under attainment in education?

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Lack of male role models in education

Feminisation of education

‘Ladish’ subcultures

Lower expectations and false confidence given by teachers

Negative teacher-pupil interactions

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What are some EXTERNAL reasons for boys under attainment in education?

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Decline in traditional male jobs

Gendered socialisation (men are socialised to be more aggressive and active)

Lack of educated male role models

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What are EXTERNAL factors that race can have on attainment?

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Cultural deprivation

Attitudes and values

Family structure

Material deprivation

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What are some INTERNAL factors that cause race to have an effect on attainment?

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Labelling

Institutional racism

The Ethnocentric curriculum that’s taught

Pupil subcultures

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How does race contribute to an individual being at greater risk of material deprivation? (3 reasons)

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More likely to live In economically depressed areas

Cultural factors such as purdah in some Muslim households prevent women from working

Lack of complex linguistic skills or foreign qualifications that aren’t recognised in the UK

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What is the Marxist view on education?

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It rewards conformity

Transmit the ruling class ideology

Prepares pupils for their role in the workplace

Reproduces new generations of workers for the capitalist system

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What is the functionalist view of education?

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They believe that education prepares children for society by passing on key information needed to thrive in the world

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What is the feminist reasoning for difference in attainment at school (Girls side) ?

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Changing attitudes- Sue Sharpe

Different experiences of gender- Becker

Gendered socialisation- Angela Mcrobbie

Formation of Gender identities- Anne Oakly

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What did Paul Willis find in his study “Learning To Labour “ about the value placed on education by Working class males

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That “having a laff” was valued far more than gaining an education

Mental labour is seen as inferior to physical labour

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What did Becker talk about

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Labelling and the perfect student in teachers eyes

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Who built on Beckers work?

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Abraham

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What did Abraham write about teachers labelling of students ?

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Typical girl: studious and well-behaved

Typical boy : trouble maker

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What is the feminist reasoning for the difference in attainment at school (Boys side) ?

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Changing attitudes in groups - Paul Willis

Differences of gender’s experience- Becker

Gendered socialisation- Mac An Gal (socialisation)

Formation of Gendered Identities - Mac An Gal (boys told off for being like girls)

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What are some strengths of the Interactonist approach to education?

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Multiple studies back it

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