Interactionalist View On Education Flashcards
What are the 5 interactionists explanations of education?
- Teachers apply labels to pupils which impacts on their achievement
- Pupils from a working class background are less likely to be labelled as an ‘ideal pupil’ which impacts on achievement
- Teachers have different expectations of boys and girls which impact achievement
- Labels are applied within education by teachers based on stereotypes around ethnicity and religious beliefs
- Anti school subcultures form as a response to negative labelling by teachers
Who argues that teachers apply labels to pupils which impacts on their achievement?
Becker
What is used as AO3 for the argument “teachers apply labels to pupils which impacts on their achievement” ?
Rosenthal and Jacobsen
Who argues that pupils from a working class background are less likely to be labelled as an “ideal pupil” which impacts on their achievement
Dunne and Gazely
Who is used as AO3 for the argument “pupils from a working class background are less likely to be labelled as an ‘ideal pupil’ which impacts on their achievement?
Willis ASSC’s
Who argues that teachers have different expectations of boys and girls which impacts on achievement?
Abraham
What is used as AO3 for the argument “teachers have different expectations of boys and girls which impacts on achievement”
Assumes all teachers are the same
Who argues that labels are applied within education by teachers based on stereotypes around ethnicity and religious beliefs?
Basit
Who is used as AO3 for the argument “labels are applied within education by teachers based on stereotypes around ethnicity and religious beliefs” ?
Fuller
Who argues that anti school subcultures form as a response to negative labelling by teachers?
Gillborn
What is used as AO3 for the argument “anti school subcultures form as a response to negative labelling by teachers” ?
DfE stats
What did Gillborn find?
That black children were being treated differently by their teachers and were penalised more harshly for bad behaviour
What did Rosenthal and Jacobsen do?
Pygmalion in the classroom study - told teachers that certain pupils were ‘intellectual bloomers’ and the teachers treated these pupils differently. By the end of the year, these pupils had performed much better than their classmates
What does Basit suggest?
That young Muslim girls encounter significant barriers in the education system itself
What did Fuller find?
That a small number of young black girls refused to live up to the expectation that they would fail and instead they worked hard to prove their teachers wrong
