Factors That Affect Learning
Factors That Affect Learning
All children matter, regardless of their background. It is important that every child can fulfil its true potential, however there are factors that can affect a child’s learning to stop this. This essay will discuss the importance of emotional intelligence and how it positively affects a child’s learning and social class with its negative affect on education and solutions to combat it so deprived children have better opportunities in school. Social class has a major affect on educational achievement in schools as, “low income is a strong predictor of low performance” (Rowntree Foundation 2007, p.1). Marxist sociologists like Bowles and Gintis (1976) and Willis (1977) believe in the reproduction of labour, meaning working class children end up leaving school into working class jobs, as the educational system is focused on creating a docile, obedient future workforce. This suggests that some children are at a disadvantage because of their social class, even before they start school, as the educational system is not in their favour: “beneath the façade of meritocracy lies the reality of the educational system geared toward the reproduction of economic relations” (Bowles and Gintis 1976. p.103). The working class face the problem of have fewer opportunities than their wealthier peers who go on to obtain higher qualifications and higher paid jobs irrespective of their ability. Bowles and Gintis (1976) argue that these working class children who are not successful blame themselves and not the system, which has destined them to fail. This suggests that schools purposely have a system in which the working class have very little social mobility, meaning that once their in the lower sets that is where they stay; “systems of streaming in the comprehensive school contribute to the process of reproduction of class relations through education” (Ball 1986, in Rogers 1986, p.88). The system is built for those who are middle class, which makes
All children matter, regardless of their background. It is important that every child can fulfil its true potential, however there are factors that can affect a child’s learning to stop this. This essay will discuss the importance of emotional intelligence and how it positively affects a child’s learning and social class with its negative affect on education and solutions to combat it so deprived children have better opportunities in school. Social class has a major affect on educational achievement in schools as, “low income is a strong predictor of low performance” (Rowntree Foundation 2007, p.1). Marxist sociologists like Bowles and Gintis (1976) and Willis (1977) believe in the reproduction of labour, meaning working class children end up leaving school into working class jobs, as the educational system is focused on creating a docile, obedient future workforce. This suggests that some children are at a disadvantage because of their social class, even before they start school, as the educational system is not in their favour: “beneath the façade of meritocracy lies the reality of the educational system geared toward the reproduction of economic relations” (Bowles and Gintis 1976. p.103). The working class face the problem of have fewer opportunities than their wealthier peers who go on to obtain higher qualifications and higher paid jobs irrespective of their ability. Bowles and Gintis (1976) argue that these working class children who are not successful blame themselves and not the system, which has destined them to fail. This suggests that schools purposely have a system in which the working class have very little social mobility, meaning that once their in the lower sets that is where they stay; “systems of streaming in the comprehensive school contribute to the process of reproduction of class relations through education” (Ball 1986, in Rogers 1986, p.88). The system is built for those who are middle class, which makes