Assignment:
Please help to me to understand the following theories with a brief explanation/ summary of the following theories as to why schools fail:
1. Deficit theories-genetic or cultural inferiority as the cause of academic failure
2. Economic and social reproduction-the argument that schools reproduce the economic and social relations of society and therefore tend to serve the interests of the dominant classes.
3. Cultural incompatibilities-school and home cultures are often at odds.
4. Social, Economic and Cultural compatibility theories-Cultural-Ecological theories and Immigrant and Minority experiences,
5. Resistance theory,
6. Complicating theories of identities and cultures within school structures.