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23 Cards in this Set
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Explain the myth of meritocracy |
The education system helps to prevent children from knowing they are being exploited by enforcing inequalities and the idea that inequality is natural. |
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Willis - Learning to labour |
Studied 12 working class boys and found a anti subculture that attempted to detach themselves from schoo and other students. |
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Parentocracy |
using parents as the consumer, they have choice |
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3 example of marketisation of education |
League tables, OFSTED, Buisness funded schools |
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Ball |
League tables create inequalities as the better schools can afford to pick and choose, leaving the worse schools with the worse pupils |
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What did labour bring in |
EMA (helps poorer students stay on at school) |
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WISE |
encouraged girls to do science |
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Mitsos and brown found that |
Girls are better at coursework as they seemed to prefer the style and were more organised and time conscious. they also find exam preparation more stressful. |
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French and French |
Teachers now pay equal attention to boys and girls |
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reasons for boys decline in achievement |
Feminisation of the education system Lack of male role models at home Laddish subcultures |
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Epstein |
Boys are worried about being called gay if they are seen working hard |
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External reasons for girls rise in acheivement |
Rise in feminism Laws have changed e.g. equal pay act |
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What do girls do better at? |
10% better at GCSE better at science more girls move on to do higher education |
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Equal pay act was when |
1970 |
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sharpe |
compared 2 groups of working class girls 1970 girls - love,marriage, children 1990 girls- jobs, income, career based |
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Sex discrimination act was when |
1975 |
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Reasons for ethnic minorities to under succeed |
fatalism Pryce's slavery theory Lack of english dont understand the education system |
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why white boys are under achieving |
Evans street gang theory |
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Lupton |
White boys have lower expectations than ethnic groups |
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racism in wider soceity causes what |
unemployment then crowded housing |
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Youdell |
saw that teachers labelled black students as threatening or aggressive. |
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SEWELL |
studied a school and found (explain each one) conformists... innovators... retreatests... Rebels.... |
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Fuller |
year 11 black girls denied the labelling by teachers and worked harder to prove them wrong and achieved better. |
