Other studies show that labelling can be applied not just to pupils, but also to the knowledge they are taught. _________ found both pupils and knowledge can be labelled as high or low status. The comprehensive school classes she observed were streamed by ability, but all streams followed the same humanities course and covered the same course content. However, she found that although teachers believed they were teaching all pupils in the same way, in practice when they taught the A stream, they gave them abstract, theoretical, high status knowledge. The less able C stream pupils, on the other hand, were given descriptive, common sense, low status knowledge, related more to everyday experience. As lower streams generally contain more working class pupils, this withholding of high status knowledge from the C stream is likely to increase class differences in achievement.
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