Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Class differences
in education
- Patterns
- Genereally
working-class pupils
achieve less than
middle-class pupils in
education
- Children of higher professtionals are
2-3 tiomes more likely to 5 or more
A*-C GCSEs thank children of
manual workers
- 'Rich, thick kids do better
than poor, clever children'
- Michael Gove (2010)
- Cultural deprivation
- 'Culture' refers to all the
norms, values , beliefs, skills,
and knowledge of a society or
group, transmitted from one
generation to the next
- Different classes socialise
their children differently,
which may affect their
achievement
- According to the
'Cultural deprivation'
theory, working class
parents fail to
transmit the
appropriate culture
needed for success
- Intellectual
stimulation
- Working-class parents
don't provide their
children with
educational
toys/activities.
- This could put them at
a disadvantage
compared to
middle-class children
- Working-class
parents are less
likely to read to
their children
- Bernstien -
Language (1975)
- Bernstien argued
that there are two
types of language
used, restricted and
elaborated code
- The working class use the restricted
code, which is less analytic and
more descriptive with a limited
vocabulary, he argues that although
all classes understand this code, the
lower-working class may be limited
to it.
- The middle-class use the
elaborated code, which is more
analytical with a wide vocabulary,
and is universalistic, and used in
education giving the middle class
an advantage.
- Parents' education
- Feinstein (2008) argues
that parents' own
education is the most
important factor
affecting children's
achievement.
- Parenting style
- Educated parents (typically the middle-class)
emphasis consistent discipline, high
expectations, and active learning
- Less educated parents' (typically the
working-class) inconsistent
discipline means that children have
a poorer motivation and problems
when interacting with the teacher.
- Educated parents are
more aware of what will
help their children, and
set out to do these
things, such as seeing
the value in educational
vists
- Educated parents are more
likely to spend their income
on promoting their child's
delevopment
- The way that the parent
may communicate with
theor child will affect
their child's cognitive
development.
- Working-class
subculture
- The working-class subculture has an
attitude of wanting rewards now,
rather than working hard for future
rewards, unlike the deferred
gratification practiced by the
middle-class
- The belief of 'whatever will
be, will be' means that
working-class children don't
believe that they can change
their position through their
own efforts.
- Hyman (1967) argues that the
working class don't calue
education, so they don't try
- Douglas argues that
working-class parents
show less interest in
their child's education
giving then less
support
- Material deprevation
- Poor housing
- Overcrowding, or cold and damp
rooms may mean that pupils
have nowhere quiet to do their
homework
- Poor diet
- This can lead to illness,
absences from school and
a lack of concentration in
class due to hunger
- Low income
- Poorer families can afford
fewer educational
opportunities such as trips
- Children may be
stigmatised/bullied for
the lack of uniform or
latest fashion
- Callender and Jackson (2005) found
working-class students to be debt
advise, seeing more costs than
benefits in going to university
- Bourdieu (1984) -
Cultural capital
- Bourdieu argued that middle-class
pupils are more successful
because their parents possess
more capital or asets
- Capital can
come in two
forms
- Economic capital
- The wealth
middle-class
families have
- Cultural capital
- The attitudes,
values, skills,
knowledge, etc
that the middle
class have
- Educational capital
- a combination of
cultural and
economic capital
- This advantage allows their
children to get middle-class
jobs earning more
economic capital
- School factors
- Labelling
- The meanings or
definitions we attach to
someone, to make sense
of them
- Studies show that
teachers often
attach labels
regardless of the
pupils ability
- Becker (1971)
carried out
interviews on 60
high school
teachers
- Found that teachers judged
pupils according to how
closely they fitted an image
of the 'ideal pupil'
- Argued that
teachers label
middle-class
pupils as the
'ideal pupil'
- Rist (1970)
carried a study
on an American
kindergarten
- Found that the teacher
used information about
the children's apperance
and home backgrounds to
group them
- 'The tigers' were more
likely to be middle-class
and were seated near
her, gaining the most
encouragement.
- The 'cardinals' and the
'clowns' who were more
likely to be from the
working-class were seated
further away