cultural deprivation

• compensatory ed


  aims to tackle the problem of cultural dependency by providing extra resources to schools and communities in deprived areas
• compensatory ed intervenes earlier in the socialisation process to compensate for children in deprived homes
• cultural deprivation - a myth?

  keddie - cultural deprivation is victim blaming

  • failure at school can't be blamed on home background
  • argues w/c are culturally different, not deprived
  • w/c fail because the ed system is dominated by m/c
  • schools should challenge anti w/c prejudice
• X w/c parents blamed but they are victims of an unequal society