1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Developing your knowledge
you have 15 minutes for this task
Developing your knowledge
Read page 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

5. 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

6. 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