Topics

Question 1

Policies and inequality topics

Answer 1

Britain before, 1988
Marketisation
Coalition government after 2010
Privatisation

Question 2

Policies in Britain before 1988

Answer 2

Tripartite system
Role of comprehensive
comprehensive system

Question 3

Marketisation

Answer 3

Formula, finding
Cream, skimming and league tables
Gerwitz parental choice
New labour policies
Myth of parentocracy

Question 4

Privatisation 

Answer 4

Colaisation of schools
Policies on gender and ethnicity

Question 5

Coalition government after 2010

Answer 5

Free schools
Academies
Policies and inequality

Question 6

Internal factors - education

Answer 6

Labelling
Streaming
Self fulfilling prophecy
sub cultures
Identities

Question 7

Labelling

Answer 7

Ray rits
Dunne and gazely
Becker and Jorgensen
Criticisms of labelling theory

Question 8

Streaming

Answer 8

Gillborn and youdell a-c economy and ed triage
Polarisation and differentiation
abolishing streaming

Question 9

Self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 9

Teach expectations

Question 10

Sub cultures

Answer 10

Habitus
Symbolic capital and symbolic violence
Pro-and anti-sub cultures
Variety of pupil responses

Question 11

Identities

Answer 11

Self exclusion, Sarah Evans
Nike identities

Question 12

External factors

Answer 12

Cultural deprivation
Material deprivation
Cultural capital

Question 13

Cultural deprivation

Answer 13

Language, Speech codes
Myth of cultural deprivation
Parent education/style
Working-class culture
Sugarman
Compensatory education

Question 14

Material deprivation

Answer 14

Fear of debt
Funding
Diet and health
Housing

Question 15

Cultural capital

Answer 15

Bourdeiu three types
Cultural capital 

Question 16

role of education topics

Answer 16

Functionalism
Marxism
Neoliberal/new right

Question 17

Functionalist view

Answer 17

Durkheim, social solidarity and skills
Parsons meritocracy
Davis and Moore role allocation

Question 18

Marxist view

Answer 18

Althusser ideological state apparatus
Bowles and gintis schooling in capitalist America, correspondence principle, and hidden curriculum and Myth meritocracy

Question 19

New right/neo liberal view

Answer 19

Chubbs and moe consumer choice
New right view
Two roles of the state

Question 20

Ethnicity topics

Answer 20

External factors
Internal factors – labelling, responses, and identities
Internal factors – institutional racism

Question 21

Ethnicity external factors

Answer 21

• Cultural deprivation – intellectual and linguistic skills, attitudes and values, family structure, and parental support
• Gangs
• Asian, white, working-class families
• Racism in wider society
• Material deprivation
• Criticisms

Question 22

Internal ethnicity- institutional racism

Answer 22

Critical race theory
Locked in inequality
Marketisation and segregation
Ethnocentric curriculum
Criticisms of Gillborn

Question 23

Internal factors, ethnicity– labelling, identities, responses

Answer 23

• Labelling and teacher racism, black pupils – streaming and discipline, Asian pupils
• Pupil identities - archer - teaches pupil identities, Chinese Pupil
• Responses - fuller + mac an ghaill rejecting negative labels, mizra failed strategies, Sewell variety of responses

Question 24

Gender topics

Answer 24

Internal and external factors
Identity,class and girls achievement
Boys and achievement
Gender and subject choice
Pupils sexual and gender identities

Question 25

Pupils sexual and gender identity

Answer 25

Male peer groups Teacher discipline Double standards Male gaze

Question 26

Genders, internal and external factors

Answer 26

External - Changes in the family, changes in women’s employment, girls, changing ambitions Internal – positive role models, teacher attention, selection + league tables, two views of girls achievement

Question 27

Gender and subject choice

Answer 27

As and A-levels and vocational courses Gender role, socialisation Single sex schooling Peer pressure Gendered career opportunities

Question 28

Boys and achievement

Answer 28

Boys and literacy Feminisation of education Shortage of male primary school teachers Laddish subcultures Gender class, and ethnicity

Question 29

Identity, class and girls achievement

Answer 29

Symbolic capital Hyper heterosexual, feminine identities Boyfriends Working-class girls dilemma Successful working-class girls