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Educational theorists Flashcards

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Sifting and sorting

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Davis & Moore

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Education creates shared values through secondary socialisation

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Durkheim

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Education promotes individualism and competitiveness

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Hargreaves

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Education performs roles allocation in society.

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Durkheim

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Education bridges the gap between particularistic standards of the home and the universalistic standards of the workplace

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Parsons

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The myth of meritocracy

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Bowles & Gintis

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The hidden curriculum & The correspondence principle

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Bowles & Gintis

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Learning to Labour

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Willis

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Cultural capital

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Bourdieu

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Whilst steps have been taken to make education more equal it is still fundamentally patriarchal and promotes gender role socialisation

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Stanworth

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The education system is inherently patriarchal and sexual harassment isn’t taken as seriously as other forms of bullying

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Banyard

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The hidden curriculum reinforces patriarchal values and not the needs of capitalism

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Heaton & Lawson

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The idea that education prepares student for the working world is not inherently bad as they are simply being allocated roles in society.

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Functionalist

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Labelling theory

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Becker

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Differentiation & polarisation

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Lacy

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Masculinity, sexuality, and schooling. 4 subcultures amongst men: Macho lads, Academic achievers, new enterprisers, and Real Englishmen

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Mac An Ghail

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Completed a study in which teachers were told random students had higher potential, those students succeeded.

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Rosenthal & Jacobson

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Educational triage & A*-C economy

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Gillborn & Youdell

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Students placed into lower sets were often disheartened leading to the formation of anti-school subcultures and self fulfilling prophecy’s

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Keddie

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Students placed into higher sets are warmed up to achieve academically, whilst students in lower sets are cooled down, they have their knowledge restricted and are pushed towards vocational jobs.

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Ball

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Found that labels given by teachers to students often become their “pivotal identities”

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Waterhouse

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Went undercover in a high-school as a Stanford grad student to see the effect of teacher labelling. (Highschool confidential)

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Jeremy Iverson

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Teacher stereotypes on class often stem from the appearance of pupils

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Lareau

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Interviewed women in the 70’s and in the 90’s and noticed how attitudes shifted from being home orientated to career orientated.

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Sharpe

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Used Beck’s ideas of the global risk society to explain why women are more focussed on being qualified

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Francis & Skelton

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Argues that an environment absent of both male role models and traditionally male traits of dominance and strength compared to an abundance of ‘female traits’ such as communication and organisation means boys are less successful. (feminisation of education)

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Aker

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Girls are more successful in school due to the impact of feminism

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Mistsos & Browne

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Laddish subcultures form due to a decline in traditionally masculine jobs and the view that academics is feminine.

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Jackson

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Societies constructed views on gender are the dominant factor in subject choice

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Colley

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Peer groups and your environment massively impact subject choice. Girls at all girls schools are twice as likely to take maths

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Colley

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W/C students were most likely to be placed in the bottom sets where behaviour would deteriorate.

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Ball

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Students whose parents have middle class academic backgrounds are more likely to be labelled positively compared to students who parents have traditionally w/c jobs.

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Ball

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Studied three generations of British Indian / Pakistani families and found that education was viewed as both capital and as something to be grateful of as it was not available for free in their country of origin.

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Bosit

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Biological differences are a crucial factor in determining educational achievement whether that is race, or gender, or class.

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Murray & Hernstein (Wankers)

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Black Single-Parent family rates lead to a lack of male role models and educational failure.

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Murray (again wanker)

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“Gangsta Culture” is inherently anti-school and damages black communities abilities to succeed educationally.

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Abbott (Wanker)

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Found that debt fear was stopping large amounts of W/C students from considering university.

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Callender and Jackson

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Found that material deprivation and not being able to afford educational resources had a massive impact on w/c students

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Herbet J. Gans

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Found that poverty was the largest factor effecting educational achievement

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Joseph Round tree foundation

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Supporting Bourdieu’s work on cultural capital this theorist argues that w/c students suffer “a crisis of confidence” at elite universities as it is a middle class habitus.

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Reay Et al

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Argues that the w/c use restrictive speech codes compared to the elaborate speech codes of the middle class and therefore fail to succeed in an educational environment.

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Bernstein

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Argues that the w/c fail to go onto further education as they are focused on ‘instant gratification’ compared to the m/c who value the educational system for it’s social mobility and focus on delayed gratification

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Sugarman (Wanker)

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This theorist found that parental interest was crucial to educational success and that w/c parents were less interested.

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Douglas (wanker)

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Found that similarly to Bosit’s work on Indian and Pakistani culture Phinese families value education heavily.

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Francis & Archer

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Exogenous & Endogenous privatisation

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Ball

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“Skilled” vs “disconnected” choosers and the myth of parentocracy

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Ball

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Ball’s work on skilled and disconnected choosers is heavily linked to what other class based theory of education

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Bourdieu’s cultural capital

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The cola-isation of schools and it’s effect on narrowing the curriculum

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Ball

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What are Gillborn and Youdell’s 4 aspects of educational equality?

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Equality of participation
Equality of outcome
Equality of circumstance
Equality of access

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