Explaining class diffrances in Education

Explaining class diffrances in Education

1. Social Class Background

   • Powerful Influence on a childs chance of success
   • Children from middle class backgrounds on average perform better than working class children
   • The Class Difference gets bigger as children get older
   • Middle class backgrounds do better in
     • GCSE
     • Full Time Education
     • in Gaining Places in University

2. KEY WORDS

   • Middle Class
     • non-manual occupation such as a doctor
   • Working Class
     • manual occupation, skilled workers such as a plummer
   • Internal Factors
     • Factors WITHIN the school
     • interaction with pupils and teachers
     • Inequalities between schools
   • External Factors
     • Factors OUTSIDE the Education System
       • influence at home
       • family Background and society
   • The Restricted Code
     • Speech Code usually used by the Working class
       • limited vocabulary
       • unfinished gramatically simple sentances
   • The Elaborated Code
     • Speech Code used generally by the Middle Class
       • longer more complex meaning explained by language

3. One Explanation of Class Difference

   • Better Off Parents can afford PRIVATE SCHOOLS
   • ONLY 7% go to private schools so dosnt explain the class diffrences in STATE SCHOOLS
   • Class Differences are transmitted from generation from generation

4. Cultural Deprevation

   • Skills are aquired from PRIMARY SOCIALISATION
     • Language
     • Self-Discipline
     • Reasoning SKills
     • Working Class FAIL to socialise
       • Culturally deprived
   • Interlectual Development
     • Development of Thinking and Reasoning, such as the ability to solve problems and use ideas and concepts
     • Working Class LACK books and interlectual games
       • start school without interlectual skills to develop
     • Lower class pupils score lower on ability tests
       • parents dont help with interlectual development
         • DONT read to children
   • Language
     • The language in lower class homes is deficent in the school enviroment
       • fail in the classroom
     • Two Speech Codes
       • The Restricted Speech Code
         • Used by the Working Class
           • BERNSTEIN SEES IT AS INADEAUATE BUT ALSO SEES ITS NOT JUST HOMW THAT INFLUENCES CHILDES SUCCESS
       • The Elaborated Speech Code
         • Used by the Middle Class
         • Used by the Education System
     • Gives Middles class a advantage
       • In thr Exams/ Education System
       • Have early socilisation with teh Elabrated speech code
         • Toys
         • Books Read to them by parents
   • Attitudes and Values
     • Parents attitudes and Values are a KEY FACTOR