Labelling and anti-school subcultures LOs: I can describe what labelling is. I can explain how labelling can affect a student’s educational achievement. I can explain how labelling can create anti-school subcultures. I can identify the groups that may be at risk of being Starter: Complete worksheet from last lesson (10 Mins)
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Labelling and anti-school subcultures LOs: I can describe what labelling is. I can explain how labelling can affect a student’s educational achievement.
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Labelling and anti-school subculturesLOs:I can describe what labelling is.
I can explain how labelling can affect a student’s educational achievement.
I can explain how labelling can create anti-school subcultures.
I can identify the groups that may be at risk of being negatively labelled.
Starter:
Complete worksheet from last lesson
(10 Mins)
Order the student’s faces from most likely to achieve highly to least likely to achieve.
How did you do it?
Challenge: When might teachers do this?
What is labelling?
JudgementsAbility
10 Mins
• A study found that teachers label students within the first 5 minutes of meeting them.
• Teachers often assume that well-behaved students are bright – this is called the ‘halo effect’.
• A study found that many teachers have an image of an ‘ideal student’ – this student is middle-class.
Labelling: who does it affect?
• Which social groups are more likely to be affected by negative labelling and why?
Which social groups might this student belong to?
The working-
class students
don’t achieve.
A teacher is prejudiced
towards working-class
students, and labels
them as not very clever.
Is this because
they aren’t very
clever, or are
there other
reasons?
?
The self-fulfilling prophecy happens when students
internalise the label that is given to them so the label
becomes a reality.
You can’t be entered into
the higher tier exam.
I am not good at his subject. What’s the
point in trying?
Labelling can also lead to anti–school subcultures
What name would you give to each group of students?
Pupil Subculture
• A group of pupils who share similar values and behaviour patterns
• Can emerge as a response to labelling and streaming