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.
Give 2 facts about how Material Deprivation can affect school?
- 90% of failing schools are in deprived areas
- 2006, 33% of children receiving free school meals achieved 5 A*-C at GCSE.
How can housing affect ability to learn at school?
- Catchment Areas
- Overcrowding
- Lack of Space
- Less stable housing.
How can diet have an effect on ability to learn at school?
- Lack of energy
- Prone to illness, lower immune system
- Could lead to behavioral issues
What did Bell’s (1980) study find?
Poorer children may miss out on educational experiances.
What did Ridges (2002) study find?
Finical situation could affect their self esteem due to what their wearing.
What did Smith and Noble (1995) study find?
They found that poverty effect ability to get into good schools, and external help like tutors etc.
What did Mortimore and Whitty (1997) study find?
They believed that material inequalities had the biggest impact on educational success.
