Streaming

• Streaming 


  Streaming involves separating children into different ability groups or classes called streams
• Becker


  • teachers don't usually see w/c pupils as ideal
  • as a result of low expectations and the assumption that they lack ability, w/c pupils are more likely to find themselves put in a lower stream
• Douglas


  • found that children placed in lower streams at 8 had suffered a decline in their IQ score by age 11 whereas children placed in a higher stream at age 8 had improved their IQ score by age 11.
  • result of self-fulfilling prophecy created by the streaming
• Gillborn & Youdell (2001) A-C Economy


  • found that teachers are more likely to label w/c and black pupils as having less ability
  • as a result, they are placed in lower streams and entered for lower-tier gcses

  a system where schools ration their time, resources and effort concentrating on pupils who they think have potential to get grade c and above in gcse, in order to boost their league table position
• Educational triage

  • Gillborn and Youdell
  • a result of the a-c economy. used to gain a good league table position
  • categorises pupils into three types:

  1. those who will pass anyway and can be left to get on with it
  2. those with potential, will be helped to get a grade c or above
  3. hopeless cases who are doomed to fail
• w/c and black pupils are more likely to be considered hopeless cases due to teacher's stereotypical view of them.

  -> leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and failure