Ethnicity in education - external factors - cultural deprivation
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- Created on: 22-01-19 13:57
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- Ethnicity - external factor - CULTURAL DEPRIVATION
- Intellectual and Linguistic skills
- many children from low income families lack these
- lack = poorly equipped for school
- Bereiter and Engelmann - language spoken by Low- income black American families is inadequate - disjointed, incapable of expressing abstract ideas
- Attitudes and Values
- some black children are socialised into a subculture that instils a fatalistic attitude - unequipped for success
- A lack of motivation is seen as a reason why black children fail
- Family structure and parental support
- Moynihan (1965)
- many black families are lone mother - children deprived of adequate care - financially struggles
- C.D is a cycle = inadequately socialised children from unstable families go on to fail at school, then become inadequate parents themselves
- Father absent = boys lack male role models for success
- Scruton (1986) - sees the low achievement levels of some ethnic minorities as resulting from a failure to embrace mainstream British culture
- Moynihan (1965)
- Criticisms
- Driver (1977) - sees it to ignore the positive effects of ethnicity
- e.g black Caribbean families provide positive female role models of strong independent woman
- Lawrence (1982) - black pupils under-achieve because of racism
- Keddie - sees it as a victim blaming explanation. Ethnic minority children are culturally different, not Culturlaly deprived
- Driver (1977) - sees it to ignore the positive effects of ethnicity
- Asian Families
- Sewell - Indian and Chinese pupils benefit from supportive families - have an 'asian work ethic' - place high value on education
- Lupton (2004) - adult authority in asian families is similar to the model that operates in schools
- White working class families
- McCulloch (2014) - found in his survey of 16,000 pupils that ethnic minority pupils are more likely to aspire to go to uni than white British
- Evans (2006) - argues that street culture is white W/C areas can be brutal + so kids have to learn how to withstand intimidation and intimidate others
- so, schools can become a place where the power games that young people engage in on the streets are played out again, bringing disruption and making it harder for pupils to succeed
- Compensatoyeducation
- used to tackle cultural deprivation
- Head start - in US to help deprived kids
- Intellectual and Linguistic skills
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