Relationships and Processes in School
Glossary Main points Evaluation
● Legitimation- The Hidden Curriculum:
Justifying ➔ Messages / ideas that schools do not
something by directly teach, but children learn as apart
making it seem of normal routines and procedures.
fair. Jackson (1968): First used this concept.
(Main function of Believed school should be understood as a
ideology) socialisation process, where students pick up
messages through the experience of being at
● Subcultures- school.
groups within Traits:
wider social ● Punctual
groups, whose ● Obedient
attitudes, ● Submissive
lifestyles and ● Smart
values are shared ● Non individualised (uniform)
by subculture Marxists:
members. ● Bowles & Gintis- Correspondence Theory
● Althusser- Ideological State Apparatus
● Pupil ● Henry Giroux: (Neo-
Subcultures- 1. Pro Hidden Curriculum= Functionalists Marxist) Schools are sites
groups of pupils 2. Anti Hidden Curriculum= Marxists of ideological struggle-
who have the (believe social inequality is maintained), different teachers have
same attitudes, Feminists (believe male domination is their own morals, values &
beliefs & opinions maintained), Anti Racists (believe racism views, despite the overall
within school. still remains) ethos of the school.
(Gives them identity) ➔ As a result, students
DIFFERENT from the Transmission of the hidden curriculum: all receive different
rest of society. ● Hierarchy of management: White, male messages & ideas of
head teachers (top), female classroom whats important.
● Self Fulfilling practitioners (middle), black w/c service ● Cotton, Winter, Bailey:
Prophecy- workers- kitchen staff, cleaners (bottom) Schools place the value of
become your ● Uniform: imposes identity of the school efficiency and money over
predicted label. ● Sets and Levels: defined by age and the promotion of equality &
identity opportunity.
● Ethnic groups- ● Organisation of classroom: teacher at the ➔ Emphasizes
people who share front, pupils lookup, teachers look down. inequality &
the same history, ● Competition between students hierarchy.
identity, religion, ● Grading: based on ability
language. ● Rules e.g. Chewing gum
They identify themselves ● Ethnocentric curriculum: biased towards
as one group of people. white
● Institutional
racism- deep
rooted racism
built into
institutions
within society.
Glossary Main points Evaluation
● Legitimation- The Hidden Curriculum:
Justifying ➔ Messages / ideas that schools do not
something by directly teach, but children learn as apart
making it seem of normal routines and procedures.
fair. Jackson (1968): First used this concept.
(Main function of Believed school should be understood as a
ideology) socialisation process, where students pick up
messages through the experience of being at
● Subcultures- school.
groups within Traits:
wider social ● Punctual
groups, whose ● Obedient
attitudes, ● Submissive
lifestyles and ● Smart
values are shared ● Non individualised (uniform)
by subculture Marxists:
members. ● Bowles & Gintis- Correspondence Theory
● Althusser- Ideological State Apparatus
● Pupil ● Henry Giroux: (Neo-
Subcultures- 1. Pro Hidden Curriculum= Functionalists Marxist) Schools are sites
groups of pupils 2. Anti Hidden Curriculum= Marxists of ideological struggle-
who have the (believe social inequality is maintained), different teachers have
same attitudes, Feminists (believe male domination is their own morals, values &
beliefs & opinions maintained), Anti Racists (believe racism views, despite the overall
within school. still remains) ethos of the school.
(Gives them identity) ➔ As a result, students
DIFFERENT from the Transmission of the hidden curriculum: all receive different
rest of society. ● Hierarchy of management: White, male messages & ideas of
head teachers (top), female classroom whats important.
● Self Fulfilling practitioners (middle), black w/c service ● Cotton, Winter, Bailey:
Prophecy- workers- kitchen staff, cleaners (bottom) Schools place the value of
become your ● Uniform: imposes identity of the school efficiency and money over
predicted label. ● Sets and Levels: defined by age and the promotion of equality &
identity opportunity.
● Ethnic groups- ● Organisation of classroom: teacher at the ➔ Emphasizes
people who share front, pupils lookup, teachers look down. inequality &
the same history, ● Competition between students hierarchy.
identity, religion, ● Grading: based on ability
language. ● Rules e.g. Chewing gum
They identify themselves ● Ethnocentric curriculum: biased towards
as one group of people. white
● Institutional
racism- deep
rooted racism
built into
institutions
within society.
