Education General Knowledge Flashcards
What is the formal curriculum?
Timetabled lessons, taught as subjects at school.
What is the hidden curriculum?
Learning norms, values, principles and attitudes alongside timetabled lessons.
What is meritocracy?
A system that rewards hard work or merit.
What term describes the movement of an individual either up or down the social scale?
Social mobility.
What term do Marxists use to describe the way the education system serves capitalism?
Correspondence principle.
In which year was the Education Reform Act which introduced GCSEs?
1988.
Which of the following types of schools require an entrance exam?
Grammar schools.
What is de schooling?
Abolishing schools and replacing with informal education.
What does the abbreviation SATs stand for?
Standard assessment tests.
Which term describes the inability to afford the goods and activities that are typical in a society at a given time?
Material deprivation.
Which term describes a method of dividing students into groups based on general ability rather than in particular subjects
Streaming.
What was pupil premium?
Money allocated to schools to raise attainment of disadvantaged students.
According to Bernstein what were the two types of codes of speech?
Elaborated and restricted.
Which term describes the idea that poorer families are unable to provide children with the language skills, motivation, and support to achieve educational success?
Cultural deprivation.
What is marketisation?
Changes to education to make schools more business like.
