topic 3 Flashcards
relationships and processes in schools, internal factors
- social class: labelling, setting & streaming, subcultures, pupils’ class identities, marketisation
- ethnicity: labelling, pupil responses & subcultures, institutional racism
- gender:
girls - equal opportunities policies, positive role models, GCSE & coursework, teacher attention, challenging stereotypes in curriculum, selection & league tables, identity & girls’ achievement.
boys - feminisation of education, laddish subcultures, differences in subject choice - pupils’ sexual and gender identities
- self fulfilling prophecy
labelling & SFP: becker
teachers judge pupils according to how closely they fit to the image of the ‘ideal pupil’ MC kids fit closest to this ideal
labelling & SFP: hargreaves
the halo effect - your overall impression of a person impacts your evaluations of that person’s specific traits
labelling & SFP: rist
‘tigers’ ‘cardinals’ and ‘clowns’ - primary school
labelling & SFP: dune and gazeley
teachers normalise the underachievement of WC pupils
labelling & SFP: rosenthal and jacobson
field experiment showed evidence of the SFP
setting and streaming: douglas
children placed in lower stream at age 8 suffered decline in IQ score by age 11
streaming and setting: lacey
form of differentiation. pupils then polarise/respond to streaming in one of two ways
subcultures
- pro-school
- anti-school: invert school values of hard work, obedience & punctuality, sabotage the system, form anti-social subcultures to gain status, impacts their achievement (SFP of educational failure)
subcultures: hargreaves
boys in secondary modern school formed subcultures due to failing the 11+ and being labelled as worthless & placed in low streams
subcultures: ball
beachside comp. influence of anti-school subculture declined when streaming was abolished
pupils’ class identities: schools
place higher value on MC habitus & so MC pupils gain symbolic capital. WC pupils = symbolic violence
pupils’ class identities: archer
nike identities - students having to have the latest styles and expensive brands to avoid getting made fun of by their peers
pupils’ class identities: evans
WC girls reluctant to apply for elite unis - self exclude
marketisation
gillborn & youdell: the A-C economy which leads to educational triage