ideal pupil study eval

• different teachers have different ideas of an ideal pupil
• Hempel jorgensen (2009) found that teachers idea of the ideal pupil changes depending on the social class make up of the school.
• in a mostly w/c Aspen primary school where staff said discipline was a major problem the ideal pupil was defined as quiet, passive and obedient
• in Aspen primary school children were defined in terms of behaviour and not ability
• In the mostly m/c Rowan Primary school that had very few behaviour problems, the ideal pupil was defined in terms of personality and academic ability