class and inequality in education

Material deprivation can have a negative affect on a pupils educational attainment. Who argues this?

• Douglas
• Colton
• Smith and Nobel
• Bernstein

Teachers have an 'ideal student' that they want to teach.  These students are mostly middle class.

• Bourdieu
• Douglas
• Bernstein
• Howard Becker

Middle class pupils and teachers share the same cultural capital where as the working class  experience symbolic violence? Who argues this?

• Bourdieu
• Douglas
• Saunders
• Smith and Nobel

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

• Talcott Parsons
• Émile Durkheim
• Davis and Moore

We learn to accept social inequalities through the hidden curriculum.  The hidden curriculum maintains class inequality. The ruling class maintain power by teaching their values through the hidden curriculum. Education is a system that the gov. use to teach ruling class ideas

• Althusser
• Bowles and Gintis
• Paul Willis
• Pierre Bourdieu

School is organized around concerns, curiosity, and real-world experiences of students.

• Progressivism
• Perennialism
• Essentialism
• Existentialism

He created the theory that outlined the four stages of cognitive development

• B.F. Skinner
• Horace Mann
• Jean Piaget 
• John Dewey 

He developed progressive education and is possibly the most influential educator of the 20th century. 

• Horace Mann
• Friedrich Froebel 
• Jean Jacques-Rousseau
• John Dewey 

Douglas, (1964) found out that the single most important factor explaining educational success or failure was: 

• High cultural capital
• Amount of parental encouragement
• Postcode
• Labelling

Cultural deprivation is an external explanation for academic under achievement explained by 

• Factors such as subcultures and different norms and values which stress toughness and masculinity
• Factors such as lack of books and trips to the theatre
• Factors such as young people's socialisation in the family, their community and cultural values
• Factors such as football and hockey