things to know for the night before

Question 1

criticism of the A*-C economy

Answer 1

chubb and moe argue that it brings up standards for all schools and doesnt allow people to just fail

Question 2

criticsm of lacey

Answer 2

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

Question 3

criticsm of archers nike identies

Answer 3

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

Question 4

criticsm of material depivation and ethnicity

Answer 4

86% of chineese girls on FSM passed 5 GCSEs grade A*-C compared to only 65% of white girls not on FSMS

Question 5

racism in wider soicety

Answer 5

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’

Question 6

analysis on gilbourne and youdel on labelling of black students

Answer 6

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

Question 7

swells criticsm of teacher labelling and race

Answer 7

while individual teacher labelling is important its the impact of not having a father figure that really makes black boys underachieve

Question 8

who did the study of black boys and exclusion

Answer 8

bourne

Question 9

what study bakced up gilbiurend point about racialised admissions

Answer 9

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

Question 10

swelle criticsm of accsess to opportunieis

Answer 10

insitutinalsied racism isnt powerful enough to make someone fail

Question 11

mitsos and brown on decling trad jobs

Answer 11

has created a indeitify crisis for boys they now believe that they wont get jobs so give up at school

Question 12

swann on teacher attention

Answer 12

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

Question 13

moral panic about boys

Answer 13

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

Question 14

how to make research more objective

Answer 14

• 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

Question 15

why cant research be objective

Answer 15

• 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)

Question 16

positives of using questionnaires to research gender differences

Answer 16

• low literacy levels of boys means that they will be more liekly to asnwer and express their views as they wont have to elboarte
• more likely to open up and answer questions on peer pressue to choose certain subjects

Question 17

negatives of using questionnaires to research gender

Answer 17

• the lack of elaboration possible makes the resutls less valid
• ## boys may fill out with thier firends and lie

Question 18

issues using documents

Answer 18

• gatekeepers

- cant ask follow up questions or ask for clarification

Question 19

advantges usuing documents

Answer 19

• high relibailty
• free
• large sample size

Question 20

advantages of using offical statisitics

Answer 20

• correlations cna be drawn between underahievmetn and class gender and ethnciity
• if its a sensitive tpoic it may be the only way to reserach it as not many will open up

Question 21

disadvantges of official statistics

Answer 21

• dont tell you why just give statisics

Question 22

probelms with studying truancy

Answer 22

• low qualifications equal low literacy
• seeing researcher as on the side of thee insitution
• low literacy may mean lack of informed consent
• difficulties based of researchers class and ethnciity as to what infromation is uncoverd
• it is hard to research someone who isnt there

Question 23

problems with studying school admissions

Answer 23

• gatekeepers