ethnicity education CD
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- Created on: 19-02-20 19:10
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- (External factors) ethnicity - cultural depriv.
- Asian families
- Sewell; Indian and Chinese pupils benefit from supportive families "asian work-ethic" - place a high value on education
- Lupton; adult authority in Asian families is similar to the model that operates in schools
- this had a kncok on effect in school, since parents were more likely to be supportive of school behaviour policies
- White, working-class families
- underachieve and have lower aspirations
- survey of 1600 pupils - ethnic minority pupils are more likely to aspire to go to uni than white british
- result of lack of parental support
- Lupton studied 4 mainly working-class schools - 2 prodominatly white, 1 serving a pakistani community and the 4th ethnically mixed community
- teachers reported poorer levels of behaviour and discipline in the white working-class schools despite that they had fewer children on FSM
- teachers - white had negative views on ed. but ethnic minorities saw it as a way up in society
- teachers reported poorer levels of behaviour and discipline in the white working-class schools despite that they had fewer children on FSM
- Lupton studied 4 mainly working-class schools - 2 prodominatly white, 1 serving a pakistani community and the 4th ethnically mixed community
- underachieve and have lower aspirations
- compensatory education
- tackles cultural deprivation
- aim of Operation Head Start in the USA was to compensate children for the cultural defecit they are said to suffer because of deprived backgrounds
- tackles cultural deprivation
- criticisms of cultural deprivation theory
- Driver; ignores positive effects of ethnicity on achievement
- shows that the black Caribbean family, far from being dysfunctional, provides girls with positive role models of strong independent women
- this is why black girls tend to be more successful in education than black boys
- shows that the black Caribbean family, far from being dysfunctional, provides girls with positive role models of strong independent women
- Lawrence; challenges Pryce's view that black pupils fail because their culture is weak and lack self-esteem
- argues black people underachieve because of racism
- Keddie; cultural deprivation is a victim blaming explanation
- ethnic minority children are culturally different, not deprived
- underachieve because schools are ethnocentric (biased in favour of whie culture and against ethnic minorities)
- ethnic minority children are culturally different, not deprived
- these critics oppose compensatory education because they see it as an attempt to impose the dominant white culture on children who already have a coherent culture of their own
- they propose 2 main alternatives
- multicultral education
- a policy that recogises minority cultures and includes them in the curriculum
- anti-racist education
- a policy that challenges the prejudice and discrimination that exists in schools and wider society
- multicultral education
- they propose 2 main alternatives
- Driver; ignores positive effects of ethnicity on achievement
- Asian families
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