keywords

• comprehensive school


  A type of school introduced in the 1965 where all students are educated together regardless of ability
• correspondence principal


  School reflect the workplace and through learning routine and obedience children are prepared to be exploited in capitalist life
• formal curriculum


  Subjects and topics that are directly taught in school
• gendered curriculum


  How stereotypes and expectations about gender are promoted through both of them form and hidden curriculum
• Hidden curriculum


  Things that aren’t directly learnt in schools
• marketisation 


  1988 act and aimed to bring competition and choice and education
• material deprivation

  When students lack the money and resources to succeed
• social capital


  The networks of relationships/ contacts that middle-class parents have to help pupils succeed
• social cohesion


  When individuals in society are brought together and share the same norms and values
• vocationalism


  Education focused on more practical or technical skills aimed at a certain job or career
• value consensus


  The need for society to have a common set of beliefs and principles to work
• streaming


  When children are placed into groups according to their general academic ability
• Setting


  Where students are placing to ability groups for specific subjects such as maths