Education (Pupil Subcultures and Education) Flashcards
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What is a pupil subculture?
a group of students who share similar values and behaviour patterns.
What is the main cause of pupil subcultures in education?
Labelling
The halo effect is a form of labelling, what is this?
Teacher’s who have formed a good impression, often over estimate students intelligence.
What did Howard Becker say?
Teachers evaluate pupils in relation to the idea pupil.
What did David Hargreaves say about why subcultures form? (1967)
Failing to gain status legitimately (through high grades top set etc)
What does a subculture help students feel?
Valued
How did lower stream boys gain status?
Defying school rules
What is an evaluation lower stream boys gaining status?
Not all boys turn to subcultures
Why did Collin Lacey (1970) believe subcultures form?
Differentiation
Streaming
Polarisation (pro/anti school)
What is differentiation?
Teachers categorising pupils
(ability and/or behaviour).
What is streaming?
Streaming is a form of
differentiation
– ‘high ability’ = high status
- ‘low ability’ = low status.
What is polarisation?
How students respond to
differentiation by moving
towards one of two opposite
‘poles’.
Pro-school
Anti-school
What does Mac an Ghail argue?
not all
students become pro or anti
school
The academic achievers
Working-class who
worked hard who found ways of coping with the
bullying by the macho lads
The ‘macho lads’
This group was hostile to
school authority and learning.
The ‘new enterprisers’
that hated school but
wanted to succeed via vocations
Real Englishmen
middle-class who thought
they were superior to most
Gay students
critical of the homophobic and
heterosexist nature of the school
What is a critique of the groups that Mac an Ghail found?
The research only included male students
What do Marxists argue subcultures are based on?
Class division
