Pupil Identities and Subcultures:

Group of people within a culture that differentiates from parent culture.

status, recognition and sense of worth students receive from others.

symbolic capital used negatively. Those inflicted are those who shaped by designer clothes or hyper-heterosexual feminine behaviour (w/c). Suggest education is not for them.

w/c need to achieve symbolic capital from friends or academic capital from reject w/c subculture.

committed to school values, gain approval through academic success, involved in wider life of schools (clubs)

lower streams, truanting, disruption, no HW done, reject school values.

Differentiation: teachers categorising according to perceptions.

Polarisation: pupils respond to differentiation through moving to either extreme pole. 

reinforcing acceptable behaviour by alienating those that don’t conform, and status to those that do.

Students align ability which type of school. Attend poor schools then they are poor students (vice/versa).

Schools that reinforce gender stereotypes in subjects reinforces gender identity and can shape pupil identity.

reinforces gender roles (girls = skirts, boys = trousers). Shape class as W/C might have scruffy uniform.

Positive and negative can affect self-esteem and self-image.

rejection by school can lead to reject to all authority E.g. ‘Learning to Labour’.

very focused on M/C white culture, which can make girls and EM feel excluded.