Education - Internal Factors

Question 1

What are the three sub-heading factors that influence education?

Answer 1

• teacher-student relationships
• labelling and self-fulfilling prophecy
• Streaming (sets), identity and subcultures

Question 2

(Teacher-Student Relationships)

Why do middle-class teachers wrongly judge working-class as potentially troublesome? (2)

Answer 2

1) they may not conform to uniform rules

2) negative experiences with older siblings

Question 3

(Teacher-student relationships)

What does Becker (1971) argue?

Answer 3

Teachers operate in the classroom with an ‘ideal’ student stereotype in their head in which they judge students either positively or negatively

Question 4

(Labelling and self-fulfilling)

What does labelling mean?

Answer 4

To attach a meaning or definition to them

Question 5

(Labelling and self-fulfilling prophecy)

What do studies show about teachers and labelling?

Answer 5

• Teachers often attach such labels regardless of a pupils ability
• they label pupils based on stereotyped assumptions about class (eg w/c is negative m/c positive)

Question 6

(Streaming/Sets, identity and subcultures)

What did Ray Rist (1970) say?

Answer 6

• used US primary school students
• found that teacher used information from children’s homes used to put them on particular tables
• eg Tiger Table (neat and tidy, m/c, seated close to teachers) Clown Table (troublesome, w/c, would not and could not learn)

Question 7

Who found schools ‘triage’ students into three streams?

Answer 7

Gillborn and Youdell

Question 8

What are the three parts to streaming?

Answer 8

1) students who will do well
2) students that need help to get into the A-C band
3) those deemed helpless