Pupil Subcultures

• A S


  Pupil Subcultures
• Education-Topic 2


  Class dif
• How subcultures develop


  1. Bategorie Differentiation

  2. Polarisation pupils responding to categories

  3. moving to one of two poles- pro vs anti
• Pro-school subculture


  • high streams, mostly mic, remain committed to school vales and gain academic success
• Anti-school subculture


  • low streams (wic), Find alternative status through truanting, not completing homework and create a self-Fulfilling prophecy of Failure
• Ly Hargreaves-secondary modem: 'streams, labels delinquent subculture leading to guaranteed foulure'
• Pupil responses vary


  • ingratiation
  • ritualism
  • retreatism
  • rebellion
• Pupil responses vary with teacher/lesson
• Labelling


  too deterministic - ignores free will
• Labelling


  Marxists claim it ignores wider societal structure causing labels/teachers work for capitalism
• Abolishing streaming!
• Ball: study on comprehensive school abolishing streaming


  The influence of subcultures decreased
• Teachers still label and categorise students