Education: Concepts Flashcards
Banding
A form of streaming
Compensatory education
Government funded schemes to provide support to help underachieving families in deprived areas such as sure start
Comprehensive education
All students attend the same type of schools and there is no selection
Correspondence principle
The organisation and control of school mirror work
Cultural capital
Knowledge, attitudes and values that the middle class transmit to their children
Cultural deprivation
The theory that many working class and black children are inadequately socialised and lack the right culture to succeed
Curriculum
Things taught in schools
Deferred gratification
Postponing immediate rewards and pleasures in order to produce a greater reward later
Discrimination
Treating people differently positively/negatively
Educational triage
Where students are divided into 3 groups: hopeless ones, ones that will pass and one ones that might pass. Time is spent on those that might pass
Ethnocentric
Seeing or judging things in a biased way of one culture
Gender domain
Tasks and activities that boys and girls see as the territory of their respective gender
Habitus
Learned way of thinking of a particular group
Hidden curriculum
What is indirectly taught in schools like the 4 British Values
Immediate gratification
A preference for immediate reward
Institutional racism
Discrimination that is built into everyday workings of institutions such as school and work
Labelling
The process of attaching a definition or meaning to an individual
Marketisation
Introducing market forces such as supply and demand onto things like education and health
Material deprivation
Poverty and a lack of necessities: diet clothing and money
Meritocracy
An educational system where people all have the opportunity to succeed based on their own needs
Myth of meritocracy
The idea that meritocracy does not actually exist and that it is made out to be like that so people work hard to maintain capitalism
New vocationalism
The idea that education should be about meeting the needs of the economy
Parentocracy
Rules by parents
Polarisation
A process that results in the creation of of two opposite extremes eg response to labelling is a pro or anti school subculture
Self fulfilling prophecy
Where a prediction made about a person or group comes true
Speech codes
Patterns or ways of using language, often linked to social class
Steaming
Where children are separated or taught in different classes
Symbolic capital
The status, worth and recognition we get from other people often from a similar social class eg working class girls
Symbolic violence
Where a person or groups culture is deemed worthless
Tripartite system
A selective educational system set up after 1945 consisting of grammar secondary modern and technical schools
Vocational
Connected to a career
