interactionism + education

Question 1

what perspective is interactionist ?

Answer 1

micro perspective - focuses on factors inside schools including how the running of school and interactions of teacher and pupils within the classroom can influence educational attainment

Question 2

what is symbolic interactionism ?

Answer 2

focuses on social interaction in the classroom, specific research finds that social interaction in schools affects the development of gender roles and the teachers expectations of pupils intellectual abilities affect how much pupils learn

Question 3

sociologists ?

Answer 3

• becker
• Rosenthal and Jacobson

Question 4

Becker - ideal pupil?

Answer 4

argues theres an ideal pupil that teachers like and encourage. the ideal pupil is often middle class, well behaved, respectful and ready to learn. intelligence plays only a little role in who gets to be labelled as an ideal pupil

Question 5

positive VS negative labelling ?

Answer 5

Beckers research also showed that pupils who are positively labelled show more academic development, while pupils labelled badly show a decline. pupils seen as unintelligent and misbehaving internalise this and eventually live up to this label known as a self fulfilling prophecy

Question 6

what is a master status ?

Answer 6

sometimes a label can become such a big part of ourselves that it becomes our master status. in the classroom this means that treatment in the classroom from teachers and others have a huge impact on how we see our abilities impact our performance and behaviours

Question 7

Rosenthal and Jacobsen ?

Answer 7

administered intelligence test to a number of children in a deprived inner city neighbourhood in California. they picked names at random and told the teachers that this children were more intelligent, then tested a year later and some of those children did improve which show that the teachers believing something to be true did make it happen.

Question 8

evaluation?

Answer 8

• critics say that research is too small scale and cannot be representative of the education system as a whole
• what about outside school factors, poverty and material deprivation? theres more support that poverty us the reason students underperform