Ethnicity and Achievement
Internal and External Factors
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- Education: Ethnicity and Achievement
- External Factors:
- Language
- Asian families don't have language as a first language proving a significant problem when english lacked fluency
- Gillborn: High attainment in indian pupils suggests its not a barrier to sucsess
- Family Life
- Driver: African parents have high expectations despite little formal education themselves
- Pilkington: cohesiveness in asian families assist in high educational acheivement
- Gillborn: African receive the most encouragement to move to higher education
- Ethnic minorities see success as a route to upward social mobility
- White working class students are the lowest achievers with low aspirations
- Language
- Internal factors:
- Racism and under achievement
- Gillborn: Expectations of black students were comparatively low and denied access to top sets
- Lack of black role models in schools such as teachers
- Smith: All schools are tolerant of ethnic groups and they are less excluded than white students
- Teacher Expectations
- teachers have lower expectations of black students and are labelled as trouble makers
- Gillborn: Results in a self fulfilling prophecy of disruptive and low acheiving
- Mac an Ghaill: not a direct relationship between expectation and achievement, varies considerably across all groups
- Racism and under achievement
- Curriculum Bias:
- English and history are very ethnocentric and foreign languages are primarily european
- External Factors:
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