Education Overview Flashcards
What are the 3 external factors that affect class differences in achievement?
- Material deprivation
- Cultural deprivation
- Cultural capital
What are the 3 internal factors that impact class differences in achievement?
- Labelling & self fulfilling prophecy
- Streaming
- Pupil subcultures
What are the external factors that impact ethnic differences in achievement?
- Language skills
- Family structure
- Attitudes and values
- Material deprivation
What are the internal factors that impact ethnic differences in achievement?
- The ethnocentric curriculum
- Labelling
- Pupil subcultures
- Institutionalised racism
What are the external factors that impact gender differences in education?
- Girls changing ambitions
- Changes in the family
- Changes in women’s employment
What are the internal factors that impact gender differences in achievement?
- The feminisation of schooling
- The decline in manual labour
- Laddish subcultures
What did Durkheim say the role of education was? (F)
- helps build social cohesion (linking people to their culture)
- socialisation
What did Parsons say the role of education was? (F)
- bridge between family life and wider society
- universalistic values
What educational system existed in the 1940s?
Tripartite
- secondary modern
- grammar
- technical
When were comprehensive schools introduced?
1965
What do conservative policies on education typically encourage?
Privatisation & marketisation
What did Davis & Moore say the role of education was? (F)
- role allocation
- meritocracy
What did Bowles & Gintis say was the role of education? (M)
- schools mirror society
- correspondence principle
What is the correspondence principle?
Bowles & Gintis
- education mirrors the workplace in its organisation, rewards system and other factors
What did Althusser say was the role of education? (M)
- ideological state apparatus
- transmit capitalist ideology
What did Boudieu identify about education?
- cultural capital
- capital extended to knowledge
What did Rosenthal & Jacobson’s study entail? (I)
- gave an IQ test to children
- chose names at random and told teachers they were high achievers
- those children ended up doing better
What did Francis theorise about education? (I)
Boys are less positively labelled in schools
