Education

Who talks about material deprivation?

• smith and noble
• gillborn
• sewell
• jasper

Who talks about labelling theory

• becker
• gillborn
• sewell
• jasper

who talk about an ethnocentric curriculm?

• modood
• coard
• palmer
• dexter

who talks about elaborate and restricted language codes?

• oakley
• modood
• becker
• bernstein

Teachers are less strict on boys, they give leeway to deadlines and they expect a lower standard of work. They do not push them to their potential, leaving them to fail.

• Tony Sewell
• Mitsos and Browne
• Frosh et al

Boys think education is irrelevant because they aspire to be footballer and they adopt the identity of effortless achievement. Expecting high exam results with little effort.

• Paul Willis
• Epstein
• Becky Francis
• Helen Wilkinson

Feminisation of education. There are more female teachers (1in6 primary school teachers are men), leaving role models for girls and alienates boys.

• Paul Willis
• Tony Sewell
• Sue Sharp
• Alison Kelly

Science is packaged as a boy’s subject and there are still gendered narratives. Textbooks used sexist material and the boys took over these lessons.

• Alison Kelly
• Becky Francis
• Sue Sharp
• Skelton

Education reinforces a ‘collective conscience’. Children become ‘social beings’ who know the right values.

• Talcott Parsons
• Émile Durkheim
• Davis and Moore

Education promotes meritocracy- everyone is equal and the system is fair. Differences in achievement are due to ability and society is openly mobile, meaning you can move through the class ladder. The most talented occupy the most demanding roles and any inequality encourages you to work harder.

• Talcott Parsons
• Davis and Moore
• Althusser
• Bowles and Gintis