Ethnicity and Education
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- Created on: 08-04-21 12:06
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- Ethnicity and education
- ethnic differences in education
- black and Pakistani pupils do worst
- white pupils are very close to the national average
- external factors
- cultural deprivation
- intellectual and language skills
- children from low income black families lack intellectual stimulation. They fail to develop reasoning and problem solving skills.
- Bereiter and Englemann claim that the language or poorer black American families is ungrammatical and disjointed. Their children can't express abstract ideas
- intellectual and language skills
- white working-class pupils
- Lupton studied 4 WC schools with different ethnicites. teachers reported white WC having poorer levels of behaviour
- linked this to lower levels of parental support and the negative attitudes of white working class parents towards education.
- Lupton studied 4 WC schools with different ethnicites. teachers reported white WC having poorer levels of behaviour
- material deprivation and class
- half of ethnic minority children live in low-income households
- ethnic minorities are almost twice as likely to be unemployed
- attitudes, values and family structure
- most children socialised into mainstream culture which instils competitiveness and a desire to achieve, equipping them for success.
- fatalism and immediate gratification results in lack of motivation to succeed
- lack of male role models. Murray argues high rate of lone parenthood and a lack of positive male role models lead to under achievement
- Sewell argues Chinese and Indian pupils benefit from supportive families with an 'asian work ethic'
- Fathers, gangs and culture. Sewell.
- cultural deprivation
- compensatory education - policies that aim to counter the effects of cultural deprivation
- operation head start - USA - attempt to compensate children for the cultural deficit they are said to suffer because of deprived backgrounds
- Sure start - UK - development of pre-school children in deprived areas
- internal factors
- labelling
- Gillborn and Mirza found that in one area, black children were the highest achievers entering primary school yet by GCSEs they had fallen below average. Suggests schooling is the problem.
- black pupils more likely to be punished for the same behaviour
- Gillborn and Youdell - teachers have radicalised expectations about black pupils
- G&Y conclude that conflict between white teachers and black pupils stems from racism rather than pupils behaviour
- Sewell - pupil subcultures
- conformist
- retreatist
- rebels
- innovators
- institutional racism
- individual vs institutional racism
- the ethnocentric curriculum
- Troyna and Williams - curriculum gives priority to white culture and the English language
- David - National curriculum is 'specifically British'
- this can result in minority ethnic pupils feeling that they & their culture are not valued in education. This diminishes their self-esteem, which has a negative impact on their education
- labelling
- ethnic differences in education
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