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Outline and assess the view that what happens in schools is the most influential factor in students’ educational attainment
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Outline and assess the view that what happens in schools is the most influential factor in students' educational attainment Educational attainment is a measure of a person's educational achievement. Many social factors can influence this attainment. Some examples being; Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Peer group. Everybody should have an equal chance to succeed regardless of these. However, many sociological evidence has proven otherwise and shown that what occurs in schools can more or less determine how a student will emerge from the other end of the education system. One approach which examines interaction and the daily occurrences in school is the interpretivist approach. This approach assumes that people interpret the world in terms of meanings, which are constructed in interaction situations. In terms of education, it focuses on classroom interaction, meanings which direct that interaction, and the relationships, which develop from it. Social classification is an important part of this approach....
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