Relationships and Processes within Education Flashcards
what is setting
- refers to a student being placed in an ability group based on their performance in a specific subject
- higher sets and lower sets
What is streaming?
- refers to placing a student into a stream or a collection of classes
- based upon perceived ability
- example, a student is perceived to be high ability and is therefore olaced in high sets for all subjects
what is banding
- having more than one class for a subject
- more common in larger school sixth forms
who does setting and streaming affect/ what are the trends
- can affect all students
- but setting and streaming is more likely to have a negative affect on working class students as they are likely to be placed in the lower sets
- many china and Indian students are more likely to be in higher sets
African and carribean students more likely to be placed in lower sets
how does setting and streaming influence achievment
- according to Keddie,
- cough that students n lower sets were given less challenging work, and given dumb down resources
- they are discouraged over future aspirations
- whereas the opposite is said for higher set students and there is a more positive view on their education
setting and streaming in contemporary education
- marketisation and the need for students to perform has increased setting and streaming
- facilitated the rise for vocational qualifications such as betas and t-levels
evaluation of setting and streaming
-Ball, removal of setting and streaming lessened anti-school subcultures
- boale4r, lower set is a ‘psychological prison’
- education cuts, lower sets suffer most
what are anti-school sub-cultures
- a group that has developed its own norms and values which is opposite to those of the schools
why are anti-school subcultures formed
- Boaler, setting and streaming students are put in a ‘psychological prison’
-Cohen, they form from students being denied legitimate oppotrtunities to succeed
how do anti-school subculture
lacey - -hightown grammar- differentiation of students t atalistic attitudes to education
- Mac And Gmail - ‘mecho lads’ excessive discipline, rejections of normal norms and values
what is the impact of anti-school sub-cultures
- rejection of the notion that school can be a means of success
- reinforcement of fatalistic attitudes
- exclusion and disiplinaty action
evaluation of anti-school sub-cultures
- deterministic - anti-school does not necessarily mean anti-education
- is it internal or external factors that influence anti-school sub-cultures
- most students confirm to norms and values
what is labelling?
- labelling refers to the process of attaching a label to somebody based upon the perceptions of others
- teachers place a series of labels consciously and unconsciously onto studrnyd
who is labelled?
- students of different social class
- students of different ethnic groups
- students of different genders
- interectionallity of labeliling can have multiple impacts
what theory was put forward surrounding labelling
- Becker - geh ‘ideal pupil’
- teachers had an idea of an ideal pupil that matched middle-class values
- ## judgments made upon presentation of work, appearance, conduct in classroom, language skills and personality traits.
what is the order of the process of labelling?
q. behaviour is observed
- label is attached
- behaviour is reinforced
- label is reinforced
- student internalises label
- student accepts or rejects label