Ethnic Differences in Achievement (External)
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- Created on: 22-05-17 21:24
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- Ethnic Differences in Achievement (External)
- External
- Factors outside the education system such as the influence of home, family and cure of the child and wider society
- Cultural Deprivation
- Intellectual and Lingustic skills
- Children from low-income black families lack intellectual stimulation leaving them poorly equipped for school
- The language is grammatically incorrect and disjointed. children who do not speak english at home may be held back
- Children from low-income black families lack intellectual stimulation leaving them poorly equipped for school
- Attitudes and values
- Lack of motivation as a failure for black children
- Children socialised into mainstream culture gets installed with ambition, competitiveness, equipping them for a successful education
- Black children socialised in a culture that 'lives for today'
- Does not value the education
- Lack of motivation as a failure for black children
- Family support and structure
- Failure is result of a dysfunctional family structure.
- Families are headed by a lone mother are deprived of adequate care because they struggle.
- Without males, boys lack role models which leads to underachievement
- Unstable families who are inadequalty socialised fail at school and become inadequate parents
- Families are headed by a lone mother are deprived of adequate care because they struggle.
- Failure is result of a dysfunctional family structure.
- Asian Families
- Indian and chinese pupils benefit form support from families that have high work ethic and value of education
- Adult authority in asian families is similar to authority in schools. Respectful behaviour towards adults
- Had a knock on effect in school since parents were more likely to support school policies
- Indian and chinese pupils benefit form support from families that have high work ethic and value of education
- White working class
- They have low aspirations and under achieve due to th black of parental support
- Teacher reported poorer levels of behaviour and disciple and this is because of the parents poor attitudes to education
- They have low aspirations and under achieve due to th black of parental support
- Intellectual and Lingustic skills
- Material Deprivation
- Lack of physical necessities that are seen as an essential part in today's society
- Working class pupils are more likely to face poverty an material deprivation and ethnic minorities.
- Almost half of ethnic minorities children live in low-income household
- Twice as likely to be employed
- Explains why pakistain pupils tend to do worse than indian and white pupils.
- Indian pupils are from better off backgrounds which proves they can still of better off at school
- Racism in wider society
- Ethic minorities children face other factors that effect their achievement such as racism
- Racial discrimination leads to social exclusion, such as being forced into substandard accommodation
- In jobs, white people job applications were more likely accepted compared to ethnic people
- This explains why member of ethnic groups more likely to face unemployment an low pay affecting childrens education
- Social Policies; Multicultural education
- A policy that recognises and values minority cultures and included them in the curriculum
- External
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