Internal Factors (DEA) Flashcards
Teacher Labelling/Stereotypes:
‘Ideal Pupil’ which they compare students to. Leads to the Halo Effect where teachers see a pupil as an ‘angel’, treating them accordingly.
Pivotal Identity = a stereotype becomes fixed. MC students hold positive stereotypes and vice versa.
Based on appearance, Becker - LABELLING THEORY: students accept labels and change their behaviour to fit the label, resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Evaluation: ignores the influence of factors such as class, race, etc. Too deterministic.
Setting/Streaming:
Lower streams = negative labels and vice versa.
Top stream - academic subjects
Bottom stream - settling for vocational.
Unequal classroom knowledge: taught different knowledge.
Evaluation: competitive nature so under pressure to make sure all student’s achieve..
Educational Triage:
Top set, middle set and bottom set.
Middle set get most of the attention as they make the most difference in league tables. All based on labelling so WC likely to be in bottom set.
Evaluation: New Labour introduced value added to prevent this.
Subcultures:
Norms/values oppositional to mainstream ones.
Differentiation - making students different.
Polarisation - becoming one extreme or the other.
Ingratiation (teacher’s pet), ritualism (staying out of trouble), rebellion (rejection of school values).
Evaluation: supported by Ball who removed setting which removed polarisation.
Covert Selection:
Over-subscribed schools cream skim/cherry pick the MC students who are more likely to achieve. Hidden selection.
Silt-shift: discourage WC parents from applying by using complicated language, expensive uniforms, etc.
WC excluded from high-performing schools.
Evaluation: Pupil Premium helped to avoid Covert Selection.
