Interactionists/Labelling And Banding, streaming and setting in education Flashcards
What is School Ethos?
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
What is Labelling?
- School Ethos is ‘climate’ or ‘atmosphere’ within a school
What things could influence this?
Are pupils encouraged?
Self-fulfilling prophecy is where people act in response to predictions which have been made regarding their behaviour, thereby making the prediction true. Students behaviour influenced by the way teachers react to them.
Labelling is the process thats defines a person or group in a certain way.
What is the Labelling/Interactionalist acroynm?
When boys give you headaches Relentlessly
Waterhouse- Case study of 4 Primary and secondary schools- research showed teacher labels influenced how they interacted with students.
Once student gets label or ‘pivotal identity’- this becomes a core identity which teachers use to interpret classroom events and student behaviour
i.e When normal student is ‘bad’ this just seen as temporary change and nothing of concern which will pass soon
However when a ‘misfit’ behaves normally this is only seen as a phase that will pass causing self-fulfilling prophecy
What does Becker say(1971)?
What does Hempel- Jorgensen say?
Becker(1971) says that teachers initially evaluate pupils in relation to their ‘ideal pupil’. this sets standards for teachers judgements of quality of all young people.
Hempel-Jorgensen(2009) Further talk about the ‘ideal pupil’. This includes hard work, concentrating and listening to teachers, performing well in exams, staying out of trouble and conforming to the rules.
Did research in 12 Primary schools in Hampshire, Found pupils share a similar conception of ‘ideal learner’. These were characteristics they thought their teacher would like in a new pupil if one was to come to class. Have impacts on motivation and aspirations.
What is Banding, Streaming and setting?
Banding- Schools try to ensure their intakes have a spread of pupils taken form many backgrounds
Streaming- Where schools, students are grouped into similar abilities
Setting- Where students are placed into different groups based upon ability
Sub-cultures, Banding Streaming and setting what is the acronynm
Mason Greenwood just please stop beating women
Mac and Ghail- Pro-school sub cultures academic achievers and the new enterprisers(2 subcultures). Higher set students usually conform with teachers more
Academic achievers- from skilled manual working class backgrounds. Academic success focusing traditional subjects e.g English maths, and science
New Enterprisers- Typically working class backgrounds reject traditional academic curriculum. Saw waste of time, motivated to study subjects business and computing to achieve upward mobility by exploiting school industry links
What did Jackson say?
What did Sewell say?
Jackson said 13-14 year boys and girls studied, found ‘Ladette’ behaviour. Where girls adopted boisterous culture and confrontational anti-school activity( Traditionally found more in boys)
Sewell- Black machismo- young black students coped with racist teacher stereotypes. Also many aspects of macho black identity of young African Caribbean’s were derived from media
What does Ball say?
What does smyth et al say?
Ball- Top stream students ‘warmed up’ by encouragement to achieve highly
Lower-stream students ‘cooled out’ and encouraged to follow lower-status vocational courses. (lead lower academic success)
Smyth et al- lower -stream students have negative attitudes to school, lessons slower paced, spent less time on homework, more likely to not engage
lead to negative impact on self-esteem and their identities
What did Willis say?
Students that rebel against school for various reasons develop alternative delinquent values attitudes and behaviours
Willis friendship of 12 boys- their value system was opposed to that of schools.
1. They felt superior to students and teachers
2.Attach no value to academic work, more ‘having a laff’
3. Objective miss as much of school to gain status
4.time at school was to win control over their time and make it their own
What did Gilborn and Youdell say?
Educational Triage
- Those who will achieve anyway (don’t require much input)
- Hopeless cases( Would be a waste of effort)
- Borderline cases (Require attention and input to get their 5 C’s at GCSE)
Linked this with pressure on schools to maintain their position on League tables. Connects to Education policies and processes within schools e.g labelling
