Relationships and Processes in Schools

Question 1

The Hidden Curriculum - Willis

Answer 1

Study showed that some may reject it and gain pleasure from disrupting schools attempt to socialise them

Question 2

Hidden Curriculum - Cotton, Winter and Bailey

Answer 2

Places highest value on efficiency and value for money rather than the promotion of greater equality and opportunity

Question 3

Pupil Subcultures - Woods

Answer 3

Wide variety of ways of adapting to school leading to varied subcultures
He suggests that it is too simplistic to suggest that anti school subcultures are a homogenous group but rather the ways in which the values of the school are accepted or rejected.

Question 4

Male Subcultures - Mac an Ghaill

Answer 4

The Macho Lads
The Academic Achievers 
The 'new enterprisers'
'Real Englishmen'
Gay Students

Question 5

Female Subcultures - Mac an Ghaill

Answer 5

Although girls disliked the masculinity of the macho lads may sought boyfriends
LC girls saw work as a potential marriage market

Question 6

Ethnic Subcultures - Mirza

Answer 6

Ethnicity interacts with other social divisions such as gender and social class in shaping the formation of subcultures

Question 7

Teacher - pupil relationships: Gillborn and Youdell

Answer 7

Teachers systematically deiscriminate against WC pupils by failing to recognise their intelligence because they do not exhibit it in the correct way.

Question 8

The organisation of teaching and learning: Mixed Ability

Answer 8

Pupils of all abilities taught together. Allows weaker pupils to engage while challenging the more able

Question 9

The organisation of teaching and learning: Streaming

Answer 9

Pupils are grouped based off their ability for most / all of their lessons