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Academy |
A failed school that has been taken over by the government with private sponsors such as businesses or churches.
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Agencies of Social Control
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Groups or organizations in society that control or constrain people's behaviour and actions.
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Beacon School
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A school or college recognized as a centre of excellence which has the role of sharing its expertise with other schools or colleges.
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Comprehensive School
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Introduced in 1965 - a non-selective secondary schooling system that all children attend regardless of ability.
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Counter - School Subculture |
A group of people that rejects the norms and values of school and replaces with anti-school norms and values.
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Hidden Curriculum
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Things that's not formally taught in school such as valuing good attendance, obedience and conformity.
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Home Education
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Children being taught at their homes by parents or home tutors instead of going to school.
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Independent Sector
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Schools that charge fees and are not required to follow the same rules of a state school.
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Labelling |
The attaching of a characteristic or definition to an individual or group.
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Marketisation |
Policy of bringing market forces like competition, supply and demand.
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Material Deprivation
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Lack of resources due to financial or poverty situations. May include poor housing and inability to afford educational aids in education.
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Meritocracy (or meritocratic system)
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A system that everyone is seen having equal opportunity to succeed based on their ability and effort not social gender or ethnicity.
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Nature
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Idea of intelligence being inherited or genetic. Educational success is based on abilities the child is born with.
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Nuture |
idea of educational success being based on social background and factors such as social class, gender, ethnicity and peer groups.
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Official Curriculum
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Formal learning that takes place in schools. Includes subjects and courses studied.
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Private Schools
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A school that charge fees.
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Public Schools
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Older and more famous schools like Eton or Harrow.
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Social Mobility
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Where people go up or down between the layers in status or position on the stratification system.
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Specialist Schools |
Centres that excel in a particular subject like languages or technology. They raise standards of teaching and learning in these areas.
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Streaming
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Where students get separated into groups based on their abilities and then taught in these groups for all of the subjects.
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Tri-Partite System
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Created by 1944 Education Act - was a system that used the 11-plus to put children in specific schools based on their results and abilities such as grammar, secondary modern and technical.
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Vocational Education
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Work or career related curriculum.
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy
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Where a prediction is made on a student and get treated by the teacher based on this prediction which makes the student believe this and thus results to making the prediction come true.
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11-Plus Education
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National IQ test introduced by 1944 Education Act which is used to put students in certain schools from the tri-partite system.
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