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Direct linkDemanet, Jannick; Van Houtte, Mieke – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Recent decades have seen many studies dealing with the effects of teacher expectations. While most have focused on students' cognitive outcomes, we relate teacher expectations to student deviancy. We expect low expectations to be associated with students' feelings of futility and less teacher support, which, according to respectively strain theory…
Descriptors: Social Control, Social Theories, Teacher Attitudes, Student Behavior
Pugh, Geoff; Telhaj, Shqiponje – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
Social capital theory, recent developments in the theory of identity and a small econometric literature all suggest positive attainment effects from faith schooling. To test this hypothesis, the authors use a unique data set on Flemish secondary school students from the 1999 repeat of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study to…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Van Houtte, Mieke – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2006
Several decades ago it was shown that the differentiation of pupils into tracks and streams led to a polarization into "anti-school" and "pro-school" cultures. Support for this differentiation-polarization theory is mainly based on case studies. This paper presents findings of a quantitative study in Belgium (Flanders).…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Culture, Social Theories, Teacher Attitudes
