streaming

• Becker:

  • teacher's do not usually see w/c as ideal pupils
• Douglas:

  • children placed in a lower stream at age 8 had suffered a decline in their IQ score by age 11
  • children placed in a higher stream at age 8 had suffered a decline in their IQ score by age 11
• Gillborn and Youdell:

  • shows how teacher's use stereotypical notions of 'ability' to stream pupils.
  • teachers see w/c pupils as having less ability - placed in lower streams and entered lower-tier GCSE.
  • link streaming to the publishing of exam league tables.
  • publishing league tables leads to a A*-C economy' in schools.
• Gillborn and Youdell:

  • 'educational triage'
  • sorting students - m/c and w/c