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Sociology- education - Coggle Diagram
Sociology- education
Policy
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Tough 2007- covert social selection occurred by discouraging poorer parents with expensive uniforms and advanced literature
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Privatisation
endogenous privatisation= within the education system, schools are run like private businesses such as performance targets, advertising for new consumers
eg educational brands, consultants for advice, building done by private busninesses not local councils
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eg canteen companies, building, exam bodies (Pearosn), staff training
Advantages:
- improve schooling in poorer areas
- more choice for parents
- education to a higher standard
Disadvnatges:
- going out of busniess (displacing children)
- money drained from education system
- equality of opportunity under threat
- create educational triage (Gilborn 2000)
government lose power, control goes to schools
Marketisation
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Ofsted, national curriculum and league tables make these effective (Education reform act 1988)
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School diversity (eg faith, specialist, grammar, academies) give parents more choice
Disadvantages:
- polariastaion due to open enrolement as WC forced into worse schools
- drains money from education
- league tables are generalisable as data often selected
- increased testing is stressful
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Gerwitz- schools engage in cream skimming to ensure the children with most capital went to the higher league table shcools
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Education reform act 1988- open enrolment, national curriculum, league tables
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Ethnicity
Class
Mirza- ethnicity can override class, eg Indian lower class can perform better than White middle class
Languages
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difficulties in work easily mistaken for less intelligence, Bhatti
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Family life
Bhatti
Pakistani parents were invested in their education but have little understanding of schooling process
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parents lacking confidence avoided teacher interactions, missing important information regarding their children
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Racism
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Educational triage- grade E or U students neglected and given up on, often EM students due to the below
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ethnocentrism- hidden curriculum biased to white british culutre (Christinaity as main RE religion, history of white britain, Literature books written by white men
Black achievement
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Mirza- 'myth of undercehivement' in Black girls, high standards and esteem
Law- no clear link between being young, Black and male and hvaing low aspirations so lower value of education is not true
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White under achievement
at age 5, White students are among the 3 highest performing ethnic groups
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Parental engagement- education as the center of family values in Asian families show consistency but in white families, parental involvement drops off
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Gender
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Subject choice
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Skelton- genders drawn to subjects that conform to their identity such as english literature for girls (7th highest subject choice for girls)
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Colley 1998- changing curriculum effects subject choice eg music taken over by boys when changed to computer based
Policy- sex discrimination act 1975, equality act 2010
Theories
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Marxism
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Bordieu
economic, social, symbolic and cultural capitals escape observation so social reproduction continues
the more capital, the higher the class
New Right
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Vocational education
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functionalists- prepare pupils for economy, division of labour
new right- encourages globalisation of education as the skills meet gaps in economy and compete with global market
feminists- breaks stereotypes of gendered subjects, espcially labour force
Labelling
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Jorgensen
ideal pupil= performing well, hard working, listening and confroms to teacher's expectations
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Rist
by the 8th day of school, children were grouped on tables based on their ability to conform to the teacher's middle class standards
Class
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Cutlutual deprivation
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Bernstein
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if used by teachers, restricts lower class in school
compensatory education
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education action zones (EAZ) tagert low income areas , Labour introdue excellence in cities (EIC)
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Material deprivation
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Bordieu
Bordieu economic capital discriminates lower class by davluing different interests and grasping embedding meanings
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Ability grouping
Bad? Increases attainment gap, widens social class differences, creates self fulfilling prophecy and fatalism
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