Education - True/False/Theorists

The ethnocentric curriculum is where subjects focus on one culture. This disadvantages pupils from other cultures.

• True

• False

Middle class students and teachers tend to use a restricted language code only.

• True

• False

Marxists state that education reproduces the class system through teacher labelling and setting & streaming?

• True

• False

According to interactionists, education facilitates social mobility.

• True

• False

Material deprivation means a lack of money leading to poor levels of nutrition, lack of books, computers, extra tuition etc.

• True

• False

On average, boys do better than girls at every stage of the education system.

• True

• False

Chinese pupils on free school meals achieve grades above the national average in their GCSEs. This means that material deprivation cannot be the only factor affecting achievement.

• True

• False

Anti-school subculture is common in the higher sets in schools.

• True

• False

Which theorist introduced the concept of the 'ideal pupil' where teachers view middle classes as fitting the profile?

• Lacey

• Ball

• Becker

• Cohen

Which theorist found that students in the higher sets are 'warmed up' and pushed towards academic topics, and students in lower sets are 'cooled out' and pushed towards vocational subjects?

• Lacey

• Ball

• Becker

• Hargreaves