Education: Concepts

Question 1

Banding

Answer 1

A form of streaming

Question 2

Compensatory education

Answer 2

Government funded schemes to provide support to help underachieving families in deprived areas such as sure start

Question 3

Comprehensive education

Answer 3

All students attend the same type of schools and there is no selection

Question 4

Correspondence principle

Answer 4

The organisation and control of school mirror work

Question 5

Cultural capital

Answer 5

Knowledge, attitudes and values that the middle class transmit to their children

Question 6

Cultural deprivation

Answer 6

The theory that many working class and black children are inadequately socialised and lack the right culture to succeed

Question 7

Curriculum

Answer 7

Things taught in schools

Question 8

Deferred gratification

Answer 8

Postponing immediate rewards and pleasures in order to produce a greater reward later

Question 9

Discrimination

Answer 9

Treating people differently positively/negatively

Question 10

Educational triage

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Ethnocentric

Answer 11

Seeing or judging things in a biased way of one culture

Question 12

Gender domain

Answer 12

Tasks and activities that boys and girls see as the territory of their respective gender

Question 13

Habitus

Answer 13

Learned way of thinking of a particular group

Question 14

Hidden curriculum

Answer 14

What is indirectly taught in schools like the 4 British Values

Question 15

Immediate gratification

Answer 15

A preference for immediate reward

Question 16

Institutional racism

Answer 16

Discrimination that is built into everyday workings of institutions such as school and work

Question 17

Labelling

Answer 17

The process of attaching a definition or meaning to an individual

Question 18

Marketisation

Answer 18

Introducing market forces such as supply and demand onto things like education and health

Question 19

Material deprivation

Answer 19

Poverty and a lack of necessities: diet clothing and money

Question 20

Meritocracy

Answer 20

An educational system where people all have the opportunity to succeed based on their own needs

Question 21

Myth of meritocracy

Answer 21

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

Question 22

New vocationalism

Answer 22

The idea that education should be about meeting the needs of the economy

Question 23

Parentocracy

Answer 23

Rules by parents

Question 24

Polarisation

Answer 24

A process that results in the creation of of two opposite extremes eg response to labelling is a pro or anti school subculture

Question 25

Self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 25

Where a prediction made about a person or group comes true

Question 26

Speech codes

Answer 26

Patterns or ways of using language, often linked to social class

Question 27

Steaming

Answer 27

Where children are separated or taught in different classes

Question 28

Symbolic capital

Answer 28

The status, worth and recognition we get from other people often from a similar social class eg working class girls

Question 29

Symbolic violence

Answer 29

Where a person or groups culture is deemed worthless

Question 30

Tripartite system

Answer 30

A selective educational system set up after 1945 consisting of grammar secondary modern and technical schools

Question 31

Vocational

Answer 31

Connected to a career