Processes within schools

Cards (4)

  • What do functionalists think about the processes within schools?
    • Teaching core norms and values through the formal curriculum and hidden curriculum
    • Shared values of a meritocratic society
  • What do Marxists believe about the processes within schools?
    • Correspondence principle and hidden curriculum
    • Favours middle class students
  • What do feminists believe about the processes within schools?
    • Gendered subject choices
    • Gender stereotyping
    • Teachers as role models
  • What do interactionalists believe about processes within schools?
    • Labelling and the self - fulfilling prophecy in schools
    • Can lead to inequalities in achievement between different groups