Ethnicity and Achievement

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  • Ethnicity and Achievement
    • Cultural Deprivation
      • Murray
        • High lone parenthood rates and lack of male role models causes underachievement
      • Lupton
        • Adult authority in Asian families is similar to that in education, allowing them to achieve higher
      • Sewell
        • Lack  of fatherly nurturing causes underachievement
      • Pryce
        • Family structure is a contributing factor to ethnic underachievement
    • Pupil Responses and Subcultures
      • Mac An Ghaill
        • Negative labelling did not necessarily cause failure
      • Fuller
        • Study of Black girls. Continued  to achieve highly  despite negative labels put on them
      • Sewell
        • Four groups of black male students: rebels, retreatists, conformists and innovators
          • Few students were actually rebels, but teachers put all black male students into this category
      • Mirza
        • Three types of racist teacher: colour-blind, liberal chauvinist, overt racist
    • Racist Labelling
      • Bourne
        • Schools see black boys as a threat to education and label them negatively
        • 3x more likely to be excluded than white boys, which causes underachievement
      • Gillborn and Youdell
        • Teachers more likely to expect poor behaviour from black students and disciplined them quicker than white counterparts
        • Black students categorised as “no hopers” in educational triage
    • Material Deprivation
      • Flaherty
        • Lack of money is a main cause of ethnic underachievement
          • Half of all minority ethnic children live in poverty
      • Palmer
        • Half of all minority ethnic children live in poverty
    • Institutional Racism
      • Troyna and Williams
        • The curriculum is ethnocentric and that is why ethnic pupils underachieve.
      • Ball
        • Little Englandism
          • Curriculum focuses on Empire “triumphs”, ignores black culture

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