Key Terms Education Flashcards
(33 cards)
Social Cohesion
The bonds or ‘glue’ that bring people together and integrate them into a united society.
Social Mobillity
The movement of groups or individuals up or down the social hierarchy.
Hidden Curriculum
The parts of school that are taught but are not part of the curriculum such as the way teaching and learning is organised and/or the values and norms of society.
Social Solidarity
The integration of people into society through shared values, a common culture, shared understandings and social ties that bring them together and build social cohesion.
Particularistic Values
Rules and values that give a priority to personal relationships.
Universalistic Values
Rules and values that apply equally to all members of society, regardless of who they are.
Meritocracy
A society where jobs and par are allocated on the basis purely of people’s individual talents, abilities, qualifications and skills.
Human Capital
The knowledge and skills possessed by a workforce that increases the workforces value and usefulness to employers.
Equality of Educational Opportunity.
The idea that every child regardless of his or hers social class background, ability to pay school fees, ethnic background, gender or disability, should have an equal chance of developing their talents and abilities and of doing as well as his or her ability will allow.
Marketisation
The process whereby services, like education r health, that were previously controlled and run by the state, have government or local council reduced or removed altogether, and become subject to the free market forces of supply and demand, based on competition snd consumer choice.
False Concioisnessm
A failure by members of a social class to recognise their real interests.
Ideological State Access (ISA)
Agencies which serve to spread the ideology, and justify the power of the dominant social class.
Habitus
The cultural framework and set of ideas possessed by a social class, into which people are socialised and which influences their cultural tastes and choices.
Cultural Capital
The knowledge, language, manners and forms of behaviour attitudes and values, tastes and lifestyle which give middle class and upper class students who posses them an advantage in a middle class controlled education system.
Subculture
A smaller culture held by a group or class of people within the main culture of a society, in some ways different from the main culture, but many aspects in common.
Anti-School Subculture
A group organised around a set of values, attitudes and behaviour in opposition to the main aims of a school.
Underachievement
The failure of people to achieve their potential - they do not do as well in education as their talents and abilities suggest they should.
Stereotype
A gernalized oversimplified view of the features of a social group allowing for few individual differences between members of the group.
Labelling
Refers to the process of defining a group or person in a certain way - as a particular ‘type’ of person or group.
Halo Effect
When pupils become stereotyped, either favourably or unfavourably, on the basis of earlier impressions.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Where people act in response to predictions which have been made regarding their behaviour, thereby making the prediction come true.
Streaming
Where students are divided into groups of similar ability in which they stay for all subjects.
Setting
Where students are into groups of the same ability in particular subjects.
Educational Triage
Refers to the way schools divide pupils into 3 groups:
- those who are likely to succeed in exams whatever happens
- those who have a chance of succeeding if they get some extra help
- those who have little chance of succeeding whatever is done.
Schools concentrate on the first 2 groups and particularly the 2nd group, and basically write- off those who have little chance of success.
