Interactionism

Question 1

What did Becker say about teachers?

Answer 1

-teachers have stereotypes of students based on their socioeconomic backgrounds

-teachers judge students on characteristics related to class,ethnicity or gender not ability

-percieve the ideal pupil as conforming to MC values

-teachers have low expactations for WC overall achievement
-creates a self-fulfilling prophecy as leads to actual low outcomes

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Question 2

What are some evaluations for Becker?

Answer 2

-focuses on small scale interactions so provides detailed evidence

x-ignores wider cultural and structural factors,places blame on teachers for external factors

Question 3

What is the pygmallion effect? Rosenthall and Jacobson

Answer 3

-teachers were told that a random cohort of students were intelligent

-these students began to perform according to percieved ability

-creates a self-fulfillling prophecy e.g teachers giving ‘smart’ kids harder work

-teachers stereotypes influence how they interact with teachers

Question 4

What are some evaluations for Rosenthall and Jacobson?

Answer 4

x-has various ethical implications,consider the affect on students labelled as ‘low ability’

Question 5

What was Gilborn’s argument?

Answer 5

-schools are institutionally racist as policies disadvantage black students

Question 6

What was Gilborn’s methodology?

Answer 6

-used the freedom of information act?

-analysed school documents i.e policy statements,teachers meetings
-gave gilborn an official perspective of racism and anti racism in schools
-compared this with primary data collection e.g interiviews and observations-triangulation

Question 7

What were gilborn’s conclusions?

Answer 7

-teachers were more likely to punish black students

-students respond to this labelling by rejecting school

Question 8

evaluations for gilborn?

Answer 8

-based on a range of research methods

x-based on small samples can’t be generalised into wider society

x-attitudes to ethnicity and racism have changed since the research was conducted

Question 9

What is the ethnocentric curriculum? Coard

Answer 9

-based on a single cultural experience
-does not relate to the experience of ethnic minorities
-e.g focuses on acclaimed white people ignores black culture,music and art

Question 10

what are some consequences of an ethnocentric curriculum? coard

Answer 10

-low self-esteem amongst black people

Question 11

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