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Education Key Concepts Flashcards

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Meritocracy

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The more you put into society, the more you get out

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Bridge home/wider society

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Education acts as a bridge between home and wider society

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Role allocation

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People with the best qualifications and skills get the best jobs

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Ladder of opportunity

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Opportunity is a ladder that must be climbed however Marxists would argue the steps are bigger for some rather than others

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Social solidarity/ shared values

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By having shared values social solidarity is achieved keeping us focused on similar goals

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Social control

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Elements in society designed to keep people in check e.g. school or police

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Correspondence principle

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Education mirrors the workplace in that rewards are given for completing tasks

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Myth of meritocracy

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The illusion of meritocracy prevents you from realising inequality in society.

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Counter school culture

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By believing you will amount to nothing in school you messaged around and thus amount to nothing

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Hidden curriculum

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Schools teach us things unintentionally e.g. lack of women in textbooks outside of traditional roles

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Ideological state apparatus

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An entity which transmits ruling class ideology

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Cultural capital

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Class indicators some are worth more than others accents, knowledge of art, important jobs

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Gender role socialisation

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Teaching children how to behave according to gender

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Gendered subject image

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Subjects have a gendered image e.g. humanities for girls science for boys etc

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Gender domains

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Boys feel more comfortable in certain areas than girls and vice versa

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Peer pressure

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The pressure students put on one another

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Male gaze

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Where males look girls up and down and make a judgement upon them

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Symbolic annihilation

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Absence of individuals from a certain CAGER from a certain role

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Parentocracy

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An education that conforms to parents wants and wishes

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Meeting the needs of consumers (industry)

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Education needs to meet the needs of industry

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Accountability/competivity

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Schools need to be accountable and competitive which is why league tables were introduced

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Labeling

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Teachers make observations and internalise those things about pupils

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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When a label is given to a student they will internalise that and then become it

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Ideal pupil

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Pupil who is quiet, hands work in on time etc.

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Halo effect

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The ideal pupil gets better treatment and does better

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Setting/streaming

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Children are supposedly set by ability but it is more the teachers thinking how likely they are to cope with it

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No universal values/ cultural diversity

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Pupils from lots of different backgrounds

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Pick and mix / bricolage

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A society made up of many different parts so different types of school are needed

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Postfordism

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Society needs highly skilled workers to operate complex technology

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Material deprivation

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Students can’t afford things so they fail to achieve e.g. meals

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Cultural deprivation

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Children aren’t able to access things of high cultural value e.g. theatre and fine art

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Language codes

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Restricted and elaborated codes

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Restricted code

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Language that doesn’t fully explain and relies on a mutual understanding of previous interactions

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Elaborated code

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Students who speak using all details and don’t rely on previous interactions

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Attitudes

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M/C prefer deferred gratification
W/C prefer instant gratification

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Deffered gratification

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When a reward comes after an extended period of time

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Instant gratification

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When a reward comes instantly

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Gender quake

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A change in women’s behaviour more generally allowing them to achieve more

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Crisis of masculinity

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A lack of the traditional masculine jobs so W/C boys feel they’re doomed to fail

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Feminisation of education

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Girls have more positive role models in education with most teachers being women.

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Self-negating prophecy

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When a student rejects and fights against a label

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Ethnocentric curriculum

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The British curriculum focuses on whiteness

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Institutionalised racism

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Because of a lack of BAME leaders schools are institutionally racist

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Tiger parents

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Parents who have the very highest expectations of their children and will punish them if they don’t achieve

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