Factors influencing the content of the curriculum: Including power, status, culture, economic demands, and gender.

Education and cultural reproduction: Examining the role of the curriculum in perpetuating cultural norms and values, including the ethnocentric curriculum, the gendered curriculum, and the hidden curriculum.

The curriculum and the concept of cultural capital: How the curriculum can be seen as a means of transmitting cultural capital and its impact on educational success.

Paper 3 – Education (Continued)

6 Education and inequality

Considers explanations for inequalities in educational attainment relating to social class, ethnicity, and gender, continuing the exploration of the key concept of Inequality and opportunity.

Examines cultural explanations for differences in educational attainment, linking to the key concept of Socialisation, culture, and identity.

6.1 Intelligence and educational attainment

The difficulties in defining intelligence: The complexities of defining and measuring intelligence.

IQ tests and the extent to which they are influenced by social factors: Evaluating the validity and reliability of IQ tests and their potential bias.

Intelligence as an influence on educational attainment: The role of intelligence in educational achievement.

6.2 Social class and educational attainment