educational triage

• Gilborn and Youdell call the process of schools focusing on students they think have potential educational triage
• Gilborn and Youdell argue the A to C economy produces educational triage
• schools catergorise pupils into three types

  • those who pass anyway and can be left to get on with work
  • those with potential who will be helped to get a C or above
  • hopeless cases who are doomed to fail
• teachers catergorise pupils using a sterotypical view of w/c and black pupils lacking ability. They are more likely to be labelled as hopeless cases and are warehoused into different sets which produces the self fullfilling prophecy and failure
• the need for a good league table position creates educational triage which becomes the basis for streaming where teachers use sterotypes to segregate w/c and black students into lower streams