Ethnicity and Education
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- Created on: 02-05-18 14:31
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- Ethnicity and education
- Ethnic groups and achevivement
- Chinese pupils are the highest achievers at GCSEs
- Female Black and Male Asian groups have some of the highest rates of students entering higher education.
- Fewer black pupils get 5 A* - C passes at GCSE than any other major ethnic group
- Roma, White and Bangladeshi students are least likely to continue into higher ed.
- Internal factors
- Labelling
- Teachers have different expectations of different ethnic groups
- Gillborn - teachers sometimes negatively label Black students
- Afro-Caribbean students were seen as a challenge to school authority
- 'The myth of black challenge'
- Afro-Caribbean students were seen as a challenge to school authority
- Teachers have high expectations of Asian students
- This could lad to the self fulfilling prophecy of success.
- School curriculum
- Ethnocentric
- Languages in the national curriculum are mainly european
- Assemblies, school holidays and History lessons are usually centred around the dominant culture.
- Institutional racism
- Wright - members of staff were committed to equal opportunities
- But they gave Asian girls the least attention
- Afro-Caribbean boys were more likely to be punished
- Where policies and attitudes unintentionally discriminate against ethnic minority groups
- Wright - members of staff were committed to equal opportunities
- Labelling
- External factors
- Language can be a barrier for immigrant families
- Having an accent can influence teacher labels
- Driver and Ballard - Asian children whose first language was not English were as good at English as their classmates by the age of 16
- Driver and Ballard - close knit extended families and high parental expectations increase achievement levels in Asian communities
- High levels of divorce and single parenthood in Afro-Carribean households could result in material deprivation
- Material deprivation
- The Swann Report - socio economic status was a factor in low levels of achievement of Afro-Caribbean pupils
- Pakistani, Bangladeshi and AFC groups are more likely to be in lower class positions.
- This can result in poor housing, periods of unemployment, poverty and material deprivation.
- Chinese, African Asian and Indian groups are more likely to be in a higher class position and are less likely to experience material deprivation
- Pakistani, Bangladeshi and AFC groups are more likely to be in lower class positions.
- The Swann Report - socio economic status was a factor in low levels of achievement of Afro-Caribbean pupils
- Ethnic groups and achevivement
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