PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Slow Learner, Escalator
16 Oct 2020
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Student social class and teacher expectations: the self-fulfilling prophecy in ghetto. The bottom line is that non-poor folks do not like to see their children going to school with poor children. The ability of public schools to generate social and economic opportunities for this massive group of children when the rest of the social structure works to block their way onto the mobility escalator is simply quite limited. To not legitimate the stake poor people have in their own future, and to incorrectly assume commonly shared realities is to ensure their peripheral status in american society. Emphasis will be placed on the initial presuppositions of the teacher regarding the intellectual ability of certain groups of children and their consequences for the children"s socialization into the school system. No matter how well a child in the lower reading groups might have read, he was destined to remain in the same reading group.
