Racism, Labelling And Setting And Streaming Flashcards
Who conducted research into labelling?
Sewell
Name the 4 responses Sewell found
Rebels
Conformists
Innovators
Retreatists
Define labelling in education
Teachers applying labels to students which can lead to the self-fulfilling prophecy
Name the 3 researchers with supporting evidence of labelling in schools
Rosenthal and Jacobson
Becker
Rist
What is the self fulfilling prophecy?
Acting out your label
Define halo effect
Where you’ve been labelled one characteristic so people assume other characteristics that link with it
Why do many sociologists think that working class children do worse in education (labelling)
W/C children often have negative labels attached to them
What was Rist’s study about labelling called
Tigers and clowns
What 2 things did Dunne conclude about her study on labelling
Teachers saw underachievement as normal for W/C kids
W/C parents were labelled as uninterested in their child’s education
What was Rosenthal and Jacobson’s study called?
Pygmalion in the classroom
Where was Rosenthal and Jacobsons study conducted?
In an elementary school in California
What happened in Rosenthal and Jacobson’s study?
The randomly selected 20% were encouraged more as teachers accepted their labels, this led to the self fulfilling prophecy
Define setting and streaming
Placing children into ability sets
Who came up with educational triage
Gilborn and Youdel
What is the educational triage?
Students are sorted into 3 groups: Will pass anyway
Those with potential
The hopeless
What does Lacey suggest categorising students into less able and more able groups causes?
Polarisation (opposite extremes)
What does Lacey say polarisation leads to?
Pro-school subcultures in top sets and anti-school subcultures in bottom sets
Suggest a reason why bottom said/working class students adopt features of anti-school subcultures
Bottom set students are unable to gain status through academic achievement
Name the researcher/research which provides evidence of anti-school subculture
Ball - beachside comprehensive, streaming being abolished led to a decline in subcultures
What does Ball say still happened at beachside comprehensive?
Teachers still continued to positively label m/c students, so they still did better in their exams
