Today’s title: Compensatory education Immediate activity: What key terms can we link to the descriptions below? Can you name their opposites? No notes, no discussion, no books A belief in fate You can change your position through your own effort Grammatically complex, wide varied vocabulary, doesn’t assume the listener shares the same experiences as the speaker Restricted code Fatalism Elaborated code Seeking pleasure now! Deferred gratification Immediate gratification Knowledge, attitudes, values and skills that help middle class pupils get ahead Cultural deprivation Lack of economic resources and it’s impact on education Economic capital Cultural capital Material deprivation

Compensatory education Saturday, 29 December 2018 Compensatory education Lesson 8: TOPIC: comp ed Definition of compensatory education and can give a relevant example. Why compensatory education schemes are necessary using key terms and scholars. Evaluate whether compensatory education schemes are enough to close the gap Compensatory education, early intervention

What is compensatory education and why is it necessary? Consider programmes like sesame street and places like sure start centres where parenting class, language development sessions and educational play groups are run, what do you think is the purpose of these schemes? Consider what we already know about the educational gaps between middle and working class children. This is compensatory education: Here’s an example of how it works

Developing your knowledge you have 15 minutes for this task Developing your knowledge Read page 63 -64 of the Browne text book (starting at the compensatory education sub heading) and answer the following questions. What is compensatory education and why might it be necessary? What is positive discrimination and how is it linked to compensatory education? What is “ Excellence in Cities?” and how can it be viewed as a compensatory education scheme? Power & Whitty (2008) and Kerr & West (2010) are critical of excellence in cities and other schemes, why? Develop Understanding

Now its your turn… Imagine that you have been awarded a grant by Nottingham city council to develop a scheme designed at closing the achievement gap between working class primary school pupils and middle class pupils. You have limited funds and need to decide who the money should be aimed at: the schools, the parents, local libraries or job centres. You can only choose two options and need to justify your decision using sociologists

Acing the sociological vocabulary External factors affecting achievement Internal factors affecting achievement Working class subcultural values Cultural deprivation Material deprivation Compensatory education Short term Retrieval