Evaluation of ALL

Question 1

Cultural Deprivation (Class)

Answer 1

• Keddie describes CD as a myth (culturally different), They fail because education system is dominated by middle class values.
• Troyna and Williams: problem is schools attitude towards language (speech hierarchy)
• Blackstone and Mortimore: Attend fewer parents because of longer hours or are put off by school’s middle-class atmosphere.

Question 2

Cultural or material factors (class)

Answer 2

• Some poor families success shows that material is only part of the explanation.
• Cultural, religious or political values may play a part
• Robinson: argues that tackling child poverty would be most effective way to boost achievement.

Question 3

Educational or economical capital (class)

Answer 3

• Leech and Campos: middle-class parents more likely to be able to afford a house in the catchment area of a school that is highly places in the exam league tables

Question 4

Criticisms of labelling theory (class)

Answer 4

• Too deterministic

- Marxists: blames teachers for labelling pupils. Teachers label because the system reproduces class divisions.

Question 5

Relationship between internal and external factors (class)

Answer 5

• Dunne and Gazeley shows that (internal factor) what teachers believe about pupils about their background (external) produces underachievement.

Question 6

Does class override ethnicity?

Answer 6

• 86% of Chinese girls entitled to FSM achieve 5 or more higher grade GCSEs compared with 65% of of white girls not receiving FSM,

Question 7

Criticisms of Gillborn

Answer 7

• Sewell believes that racism in schools is not powerful enough to prevent individuals from suceeding.
• Indian and Chinese achieve disproving critical race theorists

Question 8

Ethnicity, class and gender (institutional racism)

Answer 8

• Evans: to fully understand relationship between ethnicity and achievement, we need to look at how ethnicity interacts with gender and class.