Education revision AQA

What advantages in terms of intellectual development might a middle class child have before starting school?

• Parents read to children

• Visits to museums

• Speaking the restricted code

• Immediate gratification

Which is NOT a feature of working class subculture, as identified by Sugarman?

• Deferred gratification

• Instant gratification

• Fatalism

• Collectivism

What is meant by 'compensatory education'?

• The list of subjects that is compulsory to study, including English and Maths at the different Key Stages

• National Curriculum education subjects that schools are required to follow, as outlined by the Government.

• Educational programmes that intervene early in the socialisation process to compensate children for the deprivation they experience at home.

• OFSTED recommended policies

What is the self fulfilling prophecy?

• Attaching a meaning or definition to someone

• A label that an individual can choose to reject or internalise

• A subculture that an individual may join, once they have been labelled.

• A label that comes true simply because the individual has internalised it.

Explain what is meant by 'habitus'

• The dispositions or learned ways of thinking, being and acting that are shared by a particular social class

• Status & recognition

• The dispositions or learned ways of thinking, being and acting that are shared by a particular gender

• The dispositions or learned ways of thinking, being and acting that are shared by a particular ethnic group

Which pupils tend to achieve highest at GCSE?

• Chinese pupils

• Indian pupils

• African-Caribbean pupils

• White British pupils

The curriculum can be criticised as being ____________ - reflecting one particular ethnic viewpoint

• Unethical

• Ethnographical

• Ethnocentric

• Ethnopocentric

Identify two changes in wider society that may have improved girls' achievement

• Teacher stereotypes

• Changes in women's employment

• Girls' changing ambitions

• Positive role models in school

What is a 'parentocracy'

• Where schools are 'ruled by parents'

• Parents whose choices are restrcited by lack of capital

• Parents who give funding to schools

• Good schools can be more selective and recruit high achieving pupils