ethnicity differences in education

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  • ETHNIC DIFFERENCES
    • EXTERNAL FACTORS
      • CULTURAL DEPRIVATION
        • intellectual and linguistic skills
          • BEREITER & ENGELMANN - black american language inadequate for success
            • HOWEVER, GILLBORN & MIRZA - indian families still suceed
        • attitudes & values
          • "live for today"
        • family structure
          • DAVID MOYNIHAN black families = absent father, no role model
          • SCRUTON failure to embrace british culture
        • asian families
          • DRIVER & BALLARD higher aspirations for children
        • white families
          • SUTTON TRUST 80% ethnic = university, 68% white
        • criticisms
          • KEDDIE - culturally different not deprived
      • MATERIAL DEPRIVATION
        • FLAHERTY - pakistanis x3 likely to be poor than whites. likely to be unemployed. 15% of ethnic = overcrowded
        • GILLBORN & MIRZA - middle class black children do worse than m/c whites!!! HOWEVER
      • RACISM IN WIDER SOCEITY
        • MIKE NOON - evans + patel, exactly the same. letters to companies. better response to evans!
    • INTERNAL FACTORS
      • TEACHER LABELLING & RACISM
        • black pupils
          • GILLBORN & YOUDELL - quicker to discipline, "picked on", acted negatively
        • asian pupils
          • CECILE WRIGHT teachers = english culture superior, isolated & disapproved of pupils. Ignored
      • SUBCULTURES
        • MARY FULLER - black girls in y11, challenged anger to suceed and rejected labels
        • TONY SEWELL, "black machismo", rebellious, anti-school
          • only a small minority fit this label
      • ETHNOCENTRIC CURRICULUM
        • TROYNA & WILLIAMS - schools = white culture priority
        • Ignores indian and chinese culture but they do well!!
      • INSTITUTIONAL RACISM
        • TROYNA & WILLIAMS, racism inbuilt e.g ethnocentric curriculum = poor asian teaching of language
        • HATCHER - governors = race low priority, no way of communicating to ethnic parents
      • SELECTION & SEGREGATION
        • DONALD MOORE & SUSAN DAVENPORT discrimination against "problem children" usually ethnic
        • GILLBORN - marketisation and selection!
        • parents actively self segregate e.g GEWIRTZ asian parents = asian majority schools
    • CLASS & GENDER
      • PAUL CONNOLLY - MASCULINITY black students "disruptive underachievers" asian students "passive and conformist" immature.

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