Outline some of the ways in which culture deprivation may lead to education under achievement for working class pupils
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koko_786 (student)
Outline some of the ways in which culture deprivation may lead to education under achievement for working class pupils
Cultural deprivation suggests that culture of working class people is not good as the culture of middle class people which leads to educational failure with the working class children. This is because working class parents are not so good at parenting, which makes this approach focus on the norms and value that are transmitted by parents to their children though socialisation.
It has been argued that class differences in educational achievement are because of the differences in the home and family backgrounds of pupils. Pupils from lower class background are more likely to fail because of what they experience inside schools and outside.
Cultural depravation mean to be lacking in the skills and values required to be successful in education. This means that the working class children have very limited stimulus at home for example less educational toys, restricted amount of access to books and internet. Working class also are likely to succeed because they are less likely to be found in nursery schools, which means they are less likely to go to university and more likely to be poor readers when they start school and because of this they may be in lower sets in secondary school, making them leave school early and more likely to underachieve at GCSEs and a levels. This is because the middle class culture children are adequately prepared for school, but for working class culture it’s the complete opposite because they basically fail to prepare children adequately for education success. A sociologist such as Douglas (1964) investigated material deprivation to find out if it does actually apply to the underachievement of working class pupils. Material deprivation is lacking money and what things that money can buy for example books and computer. According to Kellet and Dar they thought that this was a big impact to education as the quoted ‘less than ten books lack in confident and poor literacy’. Douglasfocused on the key role of parental aspirations. He found out that the working class parents are less interest in formal education of their children than the middle class. Middle class parents are more able to benefit from the education system themselves so they are more likely to show interest and encourage there children to do well in education. Another reason is that the middle class parents would be able to understand the examination, School and the career system better than the working class parents which then gives them an advantage when giving their children advice on what subject to take to study. Whereas the working class parents offer less encouragement and support towards their children’s education because they may have left school at their first opportunity to earn money according to ‘archer’ this is what he suggested.
