Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Educational inequality
(Class, Gender and Ethnicity)
- Social class and underachievement
- Material explanations - (money) tutors, books, outings
(school and family), internet, type of school, stay on or not
- Cultural explanations - parental expectations, reading to children,
less awareness of 'how school works', anti-school feeling,
hobbies/visits, language skills register, who you associate with
- Schools - teachers treat WC/MC children differently, 'label' children,
self-fulfilling prophecy, influence of peers anti-school subculture
- Gender
- Girls continue to outperform
boys at all levels of education
- In England for Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 3 girls
scored consistently higher than boys in 2007
- Figures from UCAS show that there are more women
than men entering full-time undergraduate courses
- Teachers expectations
- Feminism
- Opportunities
- Ethnicity
- A persons ethnicity is likely to affect how many
GCSEs they get and at what grades, whether a
person continues into further and higher education
and even their chances of being excluded
- English may not be their first language
- Parents experience with school
- Effect of curriculum
- labeling of students