Explain The Claim That Schools Are Responsible For What Pupils Achieve In Education
Assess the claim that schools are mainly responsible for what pupils achieve in education
Schools have a massive affect on the pupils achievments in education meaning that the teachers have a massive impact as what they are teaching the student will benefit them when they are taking their test which will prove if the student is benefitting from what they are being taught or if they or not taking nothing in,
On one side schools are very responsible for the students achieving a good education and good achievements, A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behaviour, this is very important as the feedback …show more content…
Firstly his research followed a group of lads in the 1970s that rejected school and all its values and instead focused on leaving school as soon as they could. In the meantime while they did attend school they spent most of their time trying to disrupt or avoid lessons or just generally messing about in order to shake themselves free of any control the school could impose on them. Willis argued these lads had consciously developed an anti-school or counter school subculture. By being in a subculture the bottom-stream pupils can raise their self-esteem by gaining status in front of their peers. Disrupting lessons, playing up to teachers and breaking as many rules as they can is their way of getting back at the system which has labelled them as failures. Students are not always concentrated on school and their achievements because they might see education as not important and will rather play with their friends or try to impress their friends and will act in a bad way as they think they are cool or will be accepted by their ‘friends’. Some students are scared to be labelled as gay so they will purposely not excel in their exams as they think because they did well they will be labelled as nerd or
Schools have a massive affect on the pupils achievments in education meaning that the teachers have a massive impact as what they are teaching the student will benefit them when they are taking their test which will prove if the student is benefitting from what they are being taught or if they or not taking nothing in,
On one side schools are very responsible for the students achieving a good education and good achievements, A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behaviour, this is very important as the feedback …show more content…
Firstly his research followed a group of lads in the 1970s that rejected school and all its values and instead focused on leaving school as soon as they could. In the meantime while they did attend school they spent most of their time trying to disrupt or avoid lessons or just generally messing about in order to shake themselves free of any control the school could impose on them. Willis argued these lads had consciously developed an anti-school or counter school subculture. By being in a subculture the bottom-stream pupils can raise their self-esteem by gaining status in front of their peers. Disrupting lessons, playing up to teachers and breaking as many rules as they can is their way of getting back at the system which has labelled them as failures. Students are not always concentrated on school and their achievements because they might see education as not important and will rather play with their friends or try to impress their friends and will act in a bad way as they think they are cool or will be accepted by their ‘friends’. Some students are scared to be labelled as gay so they will purposely not excel in their exams as they think because they did well they will be labelled as nerd or