things to know for the night before Flashcards
criticism of the A*-C economy
chubb and moe argue that it brings up standards for all schools and doesnt allow people to just fail
criticsm of lacey
wood found that there are many responses to being labelled that arent just pro or anti school
ex retreatism confomist, ritualism ect
similarly furlong argues that students dont have one atitiude but it ahcnges between subect and teacher
criticsm of archers nike identies
mac and ghail identieis two working class subcultures who were pro school and still conformed to thier wokring class idenity some were focused on englihs and maths achievemnt
some saw the trad cirriculum as a waste of time but achieved in computing and economics
criticsm of material depivation and ethnicity
86% of chineese girls on FSM passed 5 GCSEs grade A*-C compared to only 65% of white girls not on FSMS
racism in wider soicety
rex- argues that issue ssuch as poverty in eithnic minorities is due to the racism in sidwer society that stops them being employed or be chosed for housing
wood et al found that the name on job applications is very infleuntial as to wether you get the job ethnic minority names were picked far less than ‘white names’
analysis on gilbourne and youdel on labelling of black students
contant labelling and disciplingig when shite students werent being targetted made blakc pupils have low self asteem in their abilties and felt picked on based of of race rather than actual behaviour
swells criticsm of teacher labelling and race
while individual teacher labelling is important its the impact of not having a father figure that really makes black boys underachieve
who did the study of black boys and exclusion
bourne
what study bakced up gilbiurend point about racialised admissions
the commision for racial equality who found that ethnic minority pupisl are more likely to end up at unpopular schools due to language barriers and racism of those picking school places
swelle criticsm of accsess to opportunieis
insitutinalsied racism isnt powerful enough to make someone fail
mitsos and brown on decling trad jobs
has created a indeitify crisis for boys they now believe that they wont get jobs so give up at school
swann on teacher attention
foudn that differnt communication skills of boys and girls imapct education achievemnt
teachers respond better to girls way of communicationg and punish that of boys sucha s leading debates which gives girls a slef fufilling phrophecy increasing achievemnt due to positive interactions
moral panic about boys
policies to promote girls achiveivement are now criticised for now disadvantaging girls
rignrose argues that this view has created a moral panic over working class becoming dangerously unemployed
this creates a shift in policy to help boys achieve which has two issues:
- narrowing equal opporunties down to gender ingores working class and enthic minoirty issues
- narrowing policies to the issue of achieement ignores other issues like bullying and male peer pressure
how to make research more objective
- scienfitic research methods that don’t involve a researcher getting involved such as questionaires make it less likely for researcher to make it subjective
- quantifiable outcomes means that findings can only be interpreted mathematically rather than interpretd by someones subjective opinion
- having a method that is reliable and repeatbale means that poeple repeating it are less likley to have put subejctivity into it
why cant research be objective
- how you interpret the information is subjective even a statistics have different meanings to those who have different values
- people are unpridicable and everyone jsuges differnt movemetns and phrases in differnet ways (mead)
