Sociology of Education

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Across
  1. 1. Sociologist we associate with banding/streaming and setting [4]
  2. 4. According to Bernstein, this is the type of language/speech code used by the working class, limiting their educational achievement [10]
  3. 6. A policy, introduced in 1988 which changed state schools by introducing the national curriculum, amongst other things: ‘Education … Act’ [6]
  4. 10. Word meaning ‘to go without’ – working class children are said to experience ‘Material…’ and ‘Cultural…’ [11]
  5. 14. Type of racism that is built into the systems, policies and procedures of schools [13]
  6. 15. The oldest and most prestigious type of private school. Examples are Eton or Harrow [6]
  7. 16. Becker claims teachers label pupils according to how closely they match with the ‘… pupil’ [5]
  8. 18. Sharpe’s research showed that girls had increased their… between the 1970s and the 1990s [11]
  9. 19. Where a school curriculum focuses solely on white, British culture, ignoring the history, art and literature etc of minority cultures [12]
  10. 20. – Bowles and Gintis say schools mirror the needs of the capitalist workplace through the ‘… principle’ [14]
Down
  1. 2. Type of family that has led to a) providing more positive role models for girls to be a sole breadwinner and that b) Sewell claims black boys lack a father role model at home [10]
  2. 3. Acronym for Free School Meals – an indicator of pupils who are lower working class [3]
  3. 5. Type of curriculum where we learn things such as hierarchies, competition, gender messages and obedience to authority figures [6]
  4. 7. ‘… of education’ – Concept used by Browne to say schools are heavily female places [12]
  5. 8. ‘Crisis of…’ – Term used by Mac an Ghaill to describe how men’s roles have changed in society and men have lost their sense of identity [11]
  6. 9. Sociologist we associate with institutional racism in schools [8]
  7. 11. Ideas and beliefs we have about things that are important or worth striving for. Many claim ‘education’ is one of these for middle class families, but not working class families [6]
  8. 12. Conducted a study on a working class, male anti-school subculture who rejected the norms and values of school [6]
  9. 13. French sociologist who developed the concept of cultural capital [8]
  10. 17. Sociologist who says housing (damp and cramped) creates class inequalities in education [9]