Explain How the Hidden Curriculum and Processes Within Schools Help to Produce Inequalities Between Children of Different Social Class

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Explain How the Hidden Curriculum and Processes Within Schools Help to Produce Inequalities Between Children of Different Social Class

This essay will discuss how teachers expectations can create biases between children off different social class, Also how streaming can influence an individuals performance in exams which can lead to lower class students leaving school at 16 to find a job.

Through many different researches, it has been shown that working class students are underachieving compared to that of their middle class peers. Middle class pupils are obtaining better grades, and more of them are staying on in education past the compulsory age. The difference that is noticeable is that they are from different social class backgrounds, and therefore they are socialised differently. In order to find out more about this, we need to discuss the reasons for differences between the ways in which the different social classes are taught in schools.

The hidden curriculum could be defined as the values that are taught through the attitudes and ideas of the teachers and other students. Often, teachers have a subconscious concept about children from different social backgrounds. This can affect the ways in which