Ethnic differences in achievement: education
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- Created on: 31-03-15 16:00
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- Ethnic differences in achievement
- Material deprivation
- 15% of ethnic minority households live in overcrowded conditions
- Only 2% of white households live in overcrowded conditions
- Cultural deprivation
- Attitudes + Values
- Some argue black children are fatalistic
- Intellectual + language skills
- Bereiter + Engelmann
- Consider low income American black families language as inadequate for educational success
- Gillborn + Safia Mirza note Indian pupils do well despite english not being 1st language.
- Bereiter + Engelmann
- Family structure + parental support
- Dysfunctional family structure leads to educational failure
- Moynihan argues that black children don't have enough support as led by lone mother who struggles financially
- Attitudes + Values
- Racism in wider society
- Poverty is itself another factor of racism
- Gillborn + Yodel found African Caribeean children highest achievers at primary school
- When it came to GCSEs they had the worst results
- Labelling/ teacher racism
- Studies show that teachers don't see black/asian pupils as ideal
- Gillborn + Youdell found teachers had Racialised expectations
- Black pupils are often placed in lower sets/streams
- Pupils responses and subcultures
- Conformists: Keen to succeed
- Rebels: rejected school and conformed to stereotype
- Retreatists: disconnected from school/black subcultures outside it
- Innovators: pro education but anti school
- Sewell found a range of black pupils responses
- Institutional racism
- Ethnocentric curriculum
- Troyna + Williams note that it gives priority to white culture and the English language
- Selection + segregation
- Marketisation
- Gillbron argues this means negative stereotypes have influenced decision making
- Marketisation
- Ethnocentric curriculum
- Material deprivation
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