Ethnic differences in educational achievement

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  • Ethnicity and Education
    • Internal factors: Labelling, identity and responses
      • Labelling and teacher racism
        • 'Racialised expectations' (G&Y)
        • Teacher pick on male black pupils
        • Self-fulfilling prophecy
        • Assume Asians don't understand English (Foster)
      • Pupil identities
        • Archer - ideal, pathologised and demonised pupils
        • Asians = quiet and passive
        • Chinese achieve in the wrong way
      • Pupil responses
        • Fuller = study of year 11 girls response
        • Sewell = rebels, conformists, retreatists, innovators
      • Evaluation
        • Institutional stereotypes not individual
        • Lead to deterministic assumptions
    • Internal factors: institutional racism
      • Critical race theory
        • Roithmayr = 'locked in inequality'
        • Gilborn = inequality is deep rooted in education
        • Less overt, more subtle, less identifiable
      • Marketisation and segregation
        • Gilborn = schools have more scoop
        • Bias interviews, difficulties understanding
      • Ethnocentric curriculm
      • Access to opportunities
        • Gilborn = whites twice as likely to be 'gifted & talented'
      • The New IQism
        • Opportunities based on teacher assessment
        • Gilborn = no genuine way to measure potential
      • Evaluation
        • Sewell = racism not powerful enough
        • Chinese and Indian pupils can succeed (Model minorities)
        • Evans = need to understand the interactions
    • External factors
      • Cultural deprivation
        • Intellectual and linguistic skills
        • Atitudes and values
        • Family structure and parental support (Pryce, Sewell)
        • Evaluation
          • Driver =  black women as role model
          • Lawrence = low self esteem
          • Imposes dominant culture
      • Material deprivation and class
        • Housing, low income (Palmer)
        • Greater risk of MD
        • Need to take different class positions
      • Racism in wider society
        • Social exclusion (Rex)
        • Wood = study of job applications

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