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SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENCES - Coggle Diagram

- - - - teacher makes guess -> finds evidence -> feels they can predict behaviour -> not surprising
    - - ideal pupil= middle class and teachers make label based on how closely they fit the ideal pupil
    - - American kindergarten
      - home background and appearance = separate into seating groups
      - fast learners= tigers -> sat at front and encouraged (middle class)
      - clowns= back of class + low level reading books (working class)
  - - - educational triage = streaming into 3 groups
      - hopeless cases = cant be helped
      - potential = will be helped to pass
      - intelligent= will pass on own
- - - - restricted code: WC, limited and context bound
      - elaborated code: MC, wide vocab and context free
    - - low class families rely on gestures, single words and disjointed phrases
    - - troyna and Williams
        
        problem is nothing to do with the language used but the schools problems towards it
  - - - WC parents = less value on education and provided less encouragement= children have low self esteem and don't try hard
    - - MC parents better educated to parent children into behaviours which will benefit them in school
    - - Blackstone and mortimer
        
        WC parents work irregular shifts which means they cant attend events like parents evening-> not that they don't care
  - - - WC= indirect effects of housing -> small, dark, unclean and damp = tiredness and cause ill health
      - ill health = don't attend school all the time and fall behind
  - - - WC don't go to uni because they saw more costs than benefits
      - attitudes towards debt, living costs and resources put WC off further education
- - - - attitudes and values
      - how they spend their time
      - MC= higher
      - high cultural = high educational
    - - qualifications
      - allow for good jobs which pay well
      - high educational = high economic
    - - wealth
      - parents have high economic = child raised with high cultural = gains high educational = high economic
      - continuous cycle