realtionships and processes within school. Flashcards
what are teacher pupil interactions?
when teachers are actively judging pupils based on their ability, personality and behaviour. these can lead to shaping the students self concepts and identities within school, also how they see and define themselves.
what is the ideal pupil? who suggested it?
the ideal pupil is someone who is intelligent, motivated and well behaved. this was suggested by Becker (1971)
what is a stereotype?
an over-simplified and generalised view of a social group.
who were most likely to fulfil the identity of the ideal pupil?
middle class pupils.
what did Hempel - Jorgensen (2009) find?
the rules that were laid down by teachers, effectively to create the ideal pupil made the children in the 12 primary schools he tested have the same expectation and characteristics of an ideal pupil.
what is the self fulfilling prophecy?
where people act in response to the expectations of them, therefore the expectation comes true.
what does the interactionist approach do?
it allows us to understand what happens within the classroom and how this affects student identity, progress and attainment.
what did Fuller (1980) find?
that some black girls subject to negative labelling and are placed in low streams, they consciously chose to reject such labels and strived to prove the teachers wrong.
