key studies-teacher/pupil relationships

Question 1

Becker

Answer 1

Carried out a study on labelling. Interviewed 60 Chicago high school teachers, he found that they judged pulpits according to how closely they fitted the ideal pupil. Teachers saw children from middle class backgrounds as closest to ideal pupil and WC far away cause they regarded them as badly behaved

Question 2

Lacey

Answer 2

Uses differentiation And polarisation to explain how pupil subcultures develop
D= process of categorising pupils according to how they perceive ability, attitude or behaviour
P= the process by which pupils respond to streaming by moving towards
1/2 opposite poles or extremes

Question 3

Ball

Answer 3

Argues that we should take away streaming and keep in mixed ability. He also found that when school abolished banding. The basis for pupils to polarise into subcultures was largely removed and the influence of anti subcultures declined