Labelling/ Processes In Schools

Question 1

Gilborn + Youdell - Educational triage

Answer 1

1. Will achieve anyway- don’t need much input
2. Hopeless case- waste of effort
3. Borderline case- most effort to get their 5 C’s at GCSE
   Linked to pressure put on league tables

Question 2

Self filling prophecy

Answer 2

If a label is applied enough it will stick and the child will lean into the label

Question 3

Rosenthal + Jacobson

Answer 3

• Fake IQ test done on children to see if they are bloomers
• Teachers not aware it’s fake
• At the end of the research the bloomers performed better

Question 4

Creation of subcultures

Answer 4

• A group that has its own set of norms and values
• Can be pro or anti school

Question 5

Fuller- black girls achieving highly

Answer 5

A group of black female
pupils who had been labelled ‘failures’. The girls
worked hard in order to prove their teachers wrong. This study is important because it shows that pupils have the ability to resist the labels being given to
them

Question 6

Willis - 12 wc lads

Answer 6

Saw school as pointless and for a ‘Laff’, resisted learning anything

Question 7

Mac an Ghaill - 2 types of pro-school subculture

Answer 7

The academic achievers – mostly from skilled manual, working-class background and sought to achieve by focusing on traditional academic subjects
• The new enterprisers – typically from working-class background rejected the traditional academic curriculum, saw as a waste of time, but were motivated to study subjects such as business and computing and were able to achieve upward mobility by exploiting school-industry links to their advantage.

Question 8

Setting + streaming

Answer 8

• Setting, allocating pupils into groups based on ability in specific subjects
• Streaming, allocating pupils into groups based on ability in all subjects
• Mixed ability groups, allocating students into groups with peers of all abilities