Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Class differences
in education
- External factors
- Cultural deprivation
- WC lack cultural
attitudes and
skills for success
- Intellectual
development
- Lack learning
resources
- Toy banks,
Sure Start
- Douglas - WC
score lower on
ability tests than MC
- Language
- WC -
restricted code
- Limited
vocabulary,
poor gramar
- English
compulsory
- MC - elaborate
code
- Eloquent - used
in text books and
by teachers
- Attitudes
and values
- Douglas - WC
parents less
enthusiastic
about edu
- Hyman - attitudes of
the WC are a
'self-imposed barrier'
to edu success
- Sugarman
- Fatalism: WC
believe in fate
- Collectivism: being
part of a group more
important
- Immediate
gratification:
seek fun now
- Present-time
orientation:
now is most
important
- Keddie argues
culturally
different not
deprived
- Blames school
system for MC
benefit only
- Compensatory
education
- Policy designed
to target cultural
deprivation
- Sure Start,
parenting
classes
- Material
deprivation
- 33% of
FSM got
5A* - C
- Housing
- Overcrowding
and disruption
- Poor
housing
= illness
- Diet and
health
- Poor
nurition
- WC more likely to have
behavioural/emotional
disorders
- Finances
- Lack
equipment
- More likely to
work instead
of uni
- Cultural
capital
- Bourdieu:
three types
of capital
- Cultural capital
- Knowledge,
attitudes, values,
tastes and
abilities of MC
- Socialisation -
more analytical
and intellectual
- Educational and
economic capital
- 90% of
failing
schools
are in
deprived
areas
- Selection by
mortgage - MC
can afford
houses around
better schools
- Gerwitz:
marketisation and
parental choice
- Idenitifies
three types of
parents
- Privileged-skilled
choosers
- MC parents used
their economic and
cultural capital to get
children into good
schools
- Understood
school system
and admin
- Can afford
tutors and
extra tests
- Could afford to
move close to
school/send
children to schools
further away
- Disconnected-local
choosers
- Lack
understanding
and cultural and
economic capital
- Valued
safety and
facilities over
league tables
- Semi-skilled
choosers
- WC but
ambitious
for children
- Lack cultural
capital and
had to rely on
opinions of
others