Class - educational acheivment Flashcards
(38 cards)
Who believes that the negative attitudes of parents is reproduced to children towards education
Doughlas
Who believes money problems leads to poor nutrition and lower attendance
Flaherty
Who believes there are barriers to learning
Smith and Noble - uniform - revision materials - trips, transport -
Leads to feeling of isolation
What gives a prediction to whether someone will acheive or not
Where they live - affluent area - better
What is an example of high acheiving wealthy boys doing better than high acheiving wc boys
At age of 15 - 2 and a half years ahead
What benefits does Hirschi believe boys from richer backgrounds have
More space
Often privatally educated
More likely to have structured out of school activites
A better experience of school
What are names given to wc and mc boys - how does this affect acheivment
Chavs and Posh kids
Chavs end up internalizing it
How is the difference in schooling described in the UK
Dual system
Fee paying is reserved for the rich (7% in 2014)
What did the sutton trust find about getting in too uni
Even if you got same gcse or a-levels sprivate school still more likely to get into Oxford/Cambridge
What else may hold back wc students from going to a good uni
Affording to live far away
What can parents who can’t afford to send their kids to private school do
Get private tutors (booming in Britain)
Buy house in catchment areas
Definition for cultural deprivation
Different classes have different cultures which may not all be transferable to a school situation
Who believes there are 4 main traits holding back the wc
Sugarman
- present time orientation
- immediate gratification
- collectivist approach (don’t want to work hard on their own)
- Fatalism (believe they rely on luck)
What cultural factors may put mc at an advantage
- quality of mother- child interactions
- how often parents read books
- attitudes and value place on education
- extent on negative behaviour from wc lads
- parental involvement in schooling
Who believes in elaborated and restricted speech codes
Bernstein
What are criticisms of cultural capital
Bernstein - simplifies the complexity of speech codes and has actually changed since he wrote
Many wc parents aspire for their kids to do better than them through education (Gillian Evans)
Lack proper research, often uses teacher assesments, not valid
Who believes Many wc parents aspire for their kids to do better than them through education
Gillian Evans
What are bourdieu (Marxist) 4 types of capital
Cultural capital - giving children headstart in school from home life
Economic capital - ownership of wealth
Social capital - mc may adapt to talk with more powerful people (school admission)
Symbolic capital - (respect in community ;eg, a lawyer)
Who believes the education system is biased to higher classes and reproduces inequalities
Pierre Bourdieu
What was Alice Sullevin’s research method
Survey to 465 pupils on pupils of school-leaving age
Measured pupil’s cultural capital by seeing what they done in free time and parent’s jpb. Found those who acheived better in GCSEs - read more complex fiction, and watched more sophisticated tv - current affairs, documentaries and arts or sciences
Those who didn’t succeed watched soaps or went to cultural events like the football
What and who is the habitus
Bourdieu - frame of norms and activities for a social class
Evaluation of cultural capital theories
Ignore importance of material factors, and interactions within entering school
Who mainly talks about labelling and ideal pupil
Becker
White, mc, girl, subordinate
Who claims white pupils are more likely to be labelled as “goog pupils”
Harvey and Slatin
