EDUCATION - 10 MARKERS / STUDY GUIDE –
EXPERT VERIFIED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
Terms in this set (18)
Analyse two factors outside Many working pupils 'are in receipt of free school meals'. This
schools that contribute to means that working class pupils may suffer from material
working class
deprivation.
underachievement
How "many of these children have parents who also
underachieved at school". Some sociologists argue that
working class children are likelier to suffer from cultural
deprivation, meaning they lack the right attitudes to learning
or are lack intellectual development.
The school may structure learning opportunities in ways
that directly or indirectly restrict the opportunities
given to working class pupils.
Outline and explain two
reasons why working-class
Their parents may lack the economic and educational capital
pupils may have poorer
to help their children with educational opportunities.
access to education than
Bourdieu uses the term cultural capital to refer to the
other groups of pupils
knowledge, attitudes, values, language, tastes and abilities of
the middle class. He sees middle-class culture as a type of
capital because, like wealth, it gives an advantage to those
who possess it.
, Two ways in which school As Paul Willis found in his study of 'the lads', a counter-
subcultures may contribute culture amongst young male pupils could in fact work to
to inequalities in educational
their disadvantage in terms of educational achievement and
achievement
later employment. They found school bring and resisted the
school by breaking the rules, disrupting classes and
truanting.
Although it is mainly anti-school pupil subcultures that have
been the focus on most sociological research, some pupil
subcultures reflect the values of the school. Lacey identified
the process of polarisation whereby pupils responded to
being placed in high or low streams in very different ways.
Schools operate within a wider education system
whose polices directly affect the processes to produce
class differences in achievement. These polices include
marketisation.
Ways on how marketisation
may have produced social
The educational triage is closely linked to the process of
class differences in
streaming, where teachers beliefs about pupil's ability are
educational achievement
used to segregate them into different classes and thus
produce different levels of achievement especially for the
working class. Marketisation explains why schools are under
pressure to select more able middle class pupils who will
help the school achieve higher ranking on the league tables.
EXPERT VERIFIED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
Terms in this set (18)
Analyse two factors outside Many working pupils 'are in receipt of free school meals'. This
schools that contribute to means that working class pupils may suffer from material
working class
deprivation.
underachievement
How "many of these children have parents who also
underachieved at school". Some sociologists argue that
working class children are likelier to suffer from cultural
deprivation, meaning they lack the right attitudes to learning
or are lack intellectual development.
The school may structure learning opportunities in ways
that directly or indirectly restrict the opportunities
given to working class pupils.
Outline and explain two
reasons why working-class
Their parents may lack the economic and educational capital
pupils may have poorer
to help their children with educational opportunities.
access to education than
Bourdieu uses the term cultural capital to refer to the
other groups of pupils
knowledge, attitudes, values, language, tastes and abilities of
the middle class. He sees middle-class culture as a type of
capital because, like wealth, it gives an advantage to those
who possess it.
, Two ways in which school As Paul Willis found in his study of 'the lads', a counter-
subcultures may contribute culture amongst young male pupils could in fact work to
to inequalities in educational
their disadvantage in terms of educational achievement and
achievement
later employment. They found school bring and resisted the
school by breaking the rules, disrupting classes and
truanting.
Although it is mainly anti-school pupil subcultures that have
been the focus on most sociological research, some pupil
subcultures reflect the values of the school. Lacey identified
the process of polarisation whereby pupils responded to
being placed in high or low streams in very different ways.
Schools operate within a wider education system
whose polices directly affect the processes to produce
class differences in achievement. These polices include
marketisation.
Ways on how marketisation
may have produced social
The educational triage is closely linked to the process of
class differences in
streaming, where teachers beliefs about pupil's ability are
educational achievement
used to segregate them into different classes and thus
produce different levels of achievement especially for the
working class. Marketisation explains why schools are under
pressure to select more able middle class pupils who will
help the school achieve higher ranking on the league tables.
