Ethnic Differences and Cultural Deprivation
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- Created on: 14-05-19 16:40
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- Ethnicity: Cultural Deprivation
- Intellectual and Linguistic Skills
- Many children from low-income black families lack stimulation and enriching experiences.
- Breiter and Engelmann: low-income black American families as inadequate for educational success.
- In 2010, pupils with English as their first language were only 3.2 points ahead of those with English as their first language.
- Mirza: Indian pupils do well despite often not having English as their first language.
- Attitudes and Values
- Lack of motivation is a big cause of failure for many black children.
- Many black children are socialized into a fatalistic subculture. Therefore, they do not strive to succeed.
- Family Structure and Parental Support
- Moynihan: many black families are headed by a lone mother, their children are deprived of adequate care due to no male breadwinner.
- A cycle of unstable families, inadequately socializing children to become unstable families themselves.
- Murray: lone parenthood and a lack of positive male role models.
- Scruton: some failure results from a failure to embrace mainstream British culture.
- Pryce: Asians are higher achievers because there culture is more resistant to racism.
- The experience of slavery was culturally devastating for black social groups.
- Moynihan: many black families are headed by a lone mother, their children are deprived of adequate care due to no male breadwinner.
- Sewell
- It is a lack of fatherly nurturing.
- Black boys are subject to powerful anti-educational peer group pressure. Speaking in English and doing well is often viewed as suspicion by peers.
- Gillborn: it is not peer pressure but institutional racism which systematically produces failure of a large number of black boys.
- Asian Families
- They place a high value on education.
- Lupton: adult authority is similar to the model found in schools. They are more likely to support schools behavioral policies.
- White Working Class
- McCulloch: ethnic minority pupils are more likely to aspire to go to university.
- Lupton: teachers reported poorer levels of behavior and discipline in white working class schools. Teachers blamed this on low levels of parental support.
- Evans: street culture can be brutal and can bring power games into schools.
- Criticisms
- Driver: Black Caribbean families are headed by strong female role models.
- Lawrence: black pupils underachieve not because of low self-esteem but because of racism.
- Keddie: they are culturally different, not culturally deprived. Schools are ethnocentric.
- Multi-cultural education and anti-racist education.
- Intellectual and Linguistic Skills
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