Class differences in education: the role of in-school factors
In school factors include labelling, subcultures and the hidden curriculum.
Sociological perspectives on the role and functions of education in society; the significance of in-school processes such as teacher labelling and subcultures for pupil identities; explanations for differences in educational achievement by social class, gender and ethnicity; the impact of education policies of marketization, selection and privatisation, and the globalization of education
In school factors include labelling, subcultures and the hidden curriculum.
There are three main strands to New Labour’s Education Policies – Raising standards – which essentially meant building on what
According to Traditional Marxists, school teaches children to passively obey authority and it reproduces and legitimates class inequality.
Functionalists focus on the positive functions of education – creating social solidarity, teaching core values and work skills and role allocation/ meritocracy
cultural deprivation refers to the inferior values of the working class, including immediate gratification and fatalism.
material deprivation means poor kids are more likely go hungry and get sick from living in cold houses which harms their education.
This video explores the role of social and cultural in the process of the reproduction of class inequality. This video