Working class inequality in education

Question 1

Bourdieu
What is the education system biased towards?
What do they devalue? of which group? through ?
What is the main function of education?

Answer 1

The education system is biased towards the dominant classes and they devalue the skills and knowledge of the working class students through the hidden curriculum.
The main function of education is for the social reproduction of inequalities

Question 2

Willis
Group? 
aspire towards?
What do they participate in education?
Why?
What does this lead teachers to do?

Answer 2

Working class lads are fatalistic about their futures- working in manual labour jobs therefore they create an anti school subculture when in education they devalue mental work meaning that they are negatively labelled by teachers.

Question 3

Jackson
Term?
group?
Adopt (2)
Examples of behaviours?
What does this lead teachers to do?

Answer 3

Ladettes
Working class girls
Adopt assertive feminity, anti school attitudes to rebel eg smoking, disruptive, disrespectful
This leads to teachers negatively labelling them