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Education Topic 1 and 2 recap

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  • Callendar and Jackson found what about w/c attitude to uni?
    Debt averse - saw it as negative and something to avoid
  • What is streaming and what do working class fit in?
    a way in which teachers differentiate students
  • Name TW0 of Sugarman's’ working class barriers to educational success:
    Fatalism, collectivism, immediate gratification, present-time orientation
  • How may a working class student be materially deprived
    Housing, diet/health, finances, cost of education, fear of debt
  • What is differentiation?
    A way in which teachers sift and sort pupils according to aptitude and ability
  • What is cultural capital?
    Knowledge, attitudes, values, languages, tastes and abilities of the middle class
  • Who is the ‘daddy of labelling’ and what study did he do?
    Becker - interviewed 60 Chicago high school teachers to identify who gets labelled as 'the ideal student'
  • According to Douglas, what are working-class parents attitude to education?
    Less ambitious, less encouragement, less interest, not aware of pupils progress
  • According to Gillborn and Youdell schools go through a triage system - name ONE of the categories:
    Those who will pass anyway, borderline C/D, Hopeless cases
  • Name a compensatory education programme:
    Operation head start in US, sesame street, sure start
  • What are the two types of speech codes according to Bernstein?
    Restricted and elaborated
  • What internal factors affect social class differences in achievement?
    Labelling, self fulfilling prophecy, streaming, subcultures, pupils identities and the school
  • What is polarisation?
    This refers to the way students become divided into two opposing groups, or ‘poles
  • According to Lacey, what two external subcultures do all students fall in to?
    pro school and anti-school
  • Woods found students didn’t always fall into one of the two subcultures, What other categories could a student fall in to?
    Ingratiation - teacher pet Ritualism - going through the motions Retreatism - daydreaming/ mucking about Rebellion - rejection of everything
  • What is the main criticism (A03) of labelling theory?
    Too deterministic - not all people ascribe to their label
  • What is a subculture?
    A group whose attitudes and values differ from mainstream values
  • How do Blackstone and Mortimore critisise the idea that working class parents do not care about education
    They work longer hours, put off by middle class atmosphere, lack of knowledge
  • What is restricted code and who is it used by?
    Limited vocab, restricted grammar, simple sentences, working class
  • What are two ways in which middle class parents able to socialise their children more positivley towards education (Feinstein)
    parenting style, educational behaviours, use of income, parents own education