Educational Achievement: Internal

Question 1

Gillborn and Youdell (2001)

Answer 1

Gillborn and Youdell argue that schools perform a triage categorising pupils into those who will achieve anyway, hopeless cases and borderline cases

Question 2

Lacey (1970)

Answer 2

Paul Lacey (1970) argues that it is primarily internal causes that lie behind school subcultures. He claims that pupils get sorted into two polarised (opposing) groups through differentiation by the teachers. One group consists of students who achieve highly, and the other consists of the low achiever students.

Question 3

Becker (1971)

Answer 3

Teacher’s would label pupils based on how close they came to fitting the image of the ‘ideal pupil’