Education - Class (Internal)

Question 1

What did Becker say?

Answer 1

Labelling - teachers label students if they are not the ‘ideal pupil’

Question 2

What does Becker’s theory lead to?

Answer 2

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - students live up to their label (can be good or bad) and act accordingly

Question 3

What is an evaluation point for Becker’s study?

Answer 3

Deterministic - assumes all labelled students will perform badly

Question 4

What did Rosenthal and Jacobson find out?

Answer 4

Teachers treat children who are highly achieving (known as ‘spurters’ in this study), more positively than those who aren’t, which lead these students to perform better

Question 5

What did Gilbourn and Youdell say?

Answer 5

Teachers who labelled W/C students as unintelligent were placed in in lower sets/streams, links to league tables and the A-C economy (only focuses on A-C grade students, to boost league table position) known as educational triage

Question 6

What did Lacey say about pupil subcultures?

Answer 6

Subcultures developed in 2 ways;
Polarisation - students respond to sets/streams in either pro or anti school subcultures
Differentiation - students in higher sets/streams have higher status

Question 7

What did Archer say about pupil identities?

Answer 7

Nike identities - teachers stereotype/marginalise them which makes the student exclude themselves in anti-school subcultures which makes them underachieve