evaluate the view that middle class pupils higher levels of achievement are the product of factors outside of school.

Question 1

Point 1

Answer 1

cultural deprivation

Bernstein restricted code

• teachers speak in elaborated code
• lower class families use restriced
• makes them fall behind

Question 2

Point 2

Answer 2

Douglas

• found that lower class parents placed less value on their childrens education
• giving them less encourgement and not caring as much overall

Question 3

Point 3

Answer 3

Keddie

• cultural deprivation in a myth and is instead ‘victim blaming’
• argues a child cant be deprived of its own culture and WC children are culturally different not deprived
• however the culture is deficient, and schools should recognize this and build its strengths