Roles and processes in schools- labelling theory Flashcards
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what is setting?
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- placing students in groups according to ability in individual subjects
2
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what is streaming?
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- placing students in groups according to ability across all subjects
3
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what is the ‘ideal pupil’?
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- characteristics that a teacher subconsciously looks for in a good pupil
- white
- female
- middle class
- quiet
4
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Bernstein- language codes
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- restricted code
- elaborate code
5
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what is restricted code?
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- W/C
- limited vocab, short unfinished sentences
- context bound
- grammatically simple
6
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what is elaborate code?
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- M/C
- wide vocab
- grammatically complex
- varied and abstract
- context free
7
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what is labelling theory?
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- teachers attach labels to pupils that have little to do with their actual ability
- form an opinion on the student based on how well they fit the ideal pupil
8
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Becker- teacher/student interactions= SFP
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- teacher/pupil interactions are based on labels
- can lead to SFP
- where students take on the label and act accordingly
9
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Evaluations of labelling theory:
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- deterministic
- focuses on neg effects
- attributes too much importance to ‘teacher agency’
- structural sociologists: schools encourage students to be labelled
10
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Margaret fuller (1984)- rejecting the label (SFP)
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- black girls in london comprehensive school
- found they were labelled as low-achievers
- response to negative labelling was to work harder and prove the teachers wrong
11
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Rosenthal and Jacobsen: fake IQ test on labelling
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- Fake IQ test given to students
- random 20% identified as bright
- a year later found these students had made more progress than others
