Education: Class Difference Flashcards
What are external factors?
Something that happens outside of school that can affect learning e.g finical stability.
What is material deprivation?
The inability to afford basic resources and services such as sufficient food or heating.
What is meant by cultural deprivation?
Where a person has inferior norms, values, skills and knowledge.
Name 4 factors of cultural deprivation?
- Language
- Self-discipline
- Behavior
- Reading Skills
What did JWB Douglas (1964) argue?
That working class pupils received lower grades as their parents were less lightly to support their intellectual development.
Who’s study backed up JWB Douglas study?
Bernstein and Young (1969), agreed with JWB Douglas as they studied toys bought by the different classes.
M/C parents more lightly to buy intellectual development toys.
What did Bereiter and Engelmann (1966) study suggest?
That lower class families had “deficient language”, and argued it impacted capacity for abstract thought - limit achievement at school.
What did Bernstein’s study (1975) suggest?
That there were speech codes,
restricted code - limited vocab
elaborate code - more sophisticated vocab
Argues that schools failing the parents of the children due to not educating about lanaguage.
What did JWB Douglas (1964) study find to do with attitude and values?
Found that working class parents tended to place less value on education.
Which other 2 studies back up JWB Douglas’s (1964) study?
Feinstien (1998) argued with this lack of interest was much more significant than material deprivation.
Hyman (1967) argues that some of the working class have a ‘self imposed barrier’ to educational success.
What did Barry Sugarman (1970) study say the 4 barriers for the working class?
1) Fatalism - a belief that “what will be will be”
2) Collectivism - was prioritizing being part of a group over individual success
3) Immediate Gratification
4) Present-time orientation - seeing the present as more important than future
What did Sugarman argue that working class attitude was a result of?
He argues that it was due to having less secure jobs, meaning that short-term planning makes it difficult to think about long term investment.
What did Keddie (1973) argue about Cultural Deprivation?
She believed that children cannot be deprived of its own culture.
That he or she is just brought up differently/different culture to that of the middle-class children.
What did Blackstone and Mortimore (1994) find?
That working class parents care about education, however they may not be able to help, as they been failed by system/work long hours etc.
Name some factors in which Material Deprivation can affect school?
- Being able to afford travel
- Physical equipment to learn
- Children ability to eat balanced diet.
- Cultural surroundings
- Focus away from education = trying to make money quickly.
