Social class - education Flashcards
Gillbourn and Youdell
Educational triage : most attention goes to groups who will easily achieve 5 A-C and those who will be able to with a push. Those unlikely to achieve are C are left and considered failures.
Comes as a result of the Gov saying in 2011: schools not achieving 50% 5 A-C would be deemed failing
Rosenthal and Jacobsen
SFP - one group was told they had more potential - they want to achieve better in education
Ball - Beachside Comprehensive
Top sets encouraged to flourish, whereas lower sets encouraged to take vocational route
Smyth
Lower sets have a more negative view of education - being labelled as low ability has a damaging effect on self esteem, SFP
Waterhouse
Pivotal identity is created as a result of the halo effect.
(Teachers being less tolerant once a pupil has been labelled)
Pivotal identity = how teachers interact with pupils, e.g. their leniency towards bad behaviour
Causes… SFP from conflict and pro/anti school subculture depending on teacher’s reactions
Keddie
Classroom knowledge - higher sets/streams get given more access to resources/given more work
Becker
ideal pupil - hardworking, polite, conformist, m/c girls
Ray Rist
study of an american kindergarten - teachers labelled according to home background/appearence..w/c kids given less opportunities to succeed
Amelia Hempel Jorgensen
Teacher’s ideal pupil changes from school to school (ev Becker?)
In w/c schools ideal pupil is about behaviour
In m/c schools where discipline isn’t a problem (not the same impact from SFP?) ideal pupil is about personality
Lacey
2 processes in schools…
1) differentiation: categorising students e.g. setting/streaming
2) polarisation: comes as a result of differentiation - high streams have high status in educational system.. low streams labelled as failures and deprived of status
