Education: social class Flashcards
Who suggests that diet & health play a role in w/c children not achieving in schools?
- Can you evaluate this theory?
Marilyn Howard.
Poor diet= worse health & more time off school
& poor concentration in schools
*Eval= FSMs should mitigate this in term time.
Also- this could be culture and choice not poverty
What is a compensatory policy?
A Government initiative designed to make up for something that is lacking in a child’s life. Eg, FSM
Name 5 compensatory policies
FSM Sure start Breakfast clubs Homework clubs Education Action Zones
Sugarman identified 4 features of the working class culture- what are they?
Immediate gratification: desire for a reward straight away
Present time orientation: seeing the current time as more important than the future
Fatalism: believing that there is no point trying to change your future
Collectivism: the importance of belonging to a group, and putting their needs above those of the individual
Define Bourdieu’s ‘cultural capital’
The amount of the dominant knowledge, attitudes, values, tastes and abilities possessed by a person.
Who interviewed 60 Chicago teachers and found that they had a concept of an ‘ideal pupil’?
Howard Becker
Who identified the concept of ‘educational triage’, the ‘A-C Economy’ and what do they mean?
Gillborne & Youdell.
The A-C Economy:the impact of marketisation & league tables means that schools categorise (Educational triage) students into
a)Those who will pass anyway and can be left alone
b) Those with potential- they will be helped to get a C or higher
c) Hopeless cases that are doomed to fail
Colin Lacey identifies two steps to the creation of subcultures, what are they?
Differentiation- students are judged as being of different ability and placed in a stream
Polaristion- pupils respond to their labelled position, and as a group bond together in polar extremes (top and bottom stream)
Who wrote ‘Learning to Labour: How working class kids get working class jobs’?
Paul Willis
What percentage of failing schools are in a deprived area?
90
Basil Bernstein identified two dominant speech patterns. What were they and which one was used easily by the m/c?
*Evaluation?
Restricted code (used by everyone)
Elaborated code (more formal language, more easily accessed by the middle class).
Eval= teachers use EC in schools throughout a child’s life= w/c children should are taught this.
William Labov’s study of a Harlem school.
What would David Bull suggest is placing an extra burden on poorer families?
‘The cost of free schooling’
