Ethnicity and Differential Achievement in Education
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- Created on: 02-04-14 20:19
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- Ethnicity and Differential Achievement in Education
- Modood et al
- Higher levels of achievement
- -Chinese, African Asians and Indian groups were more qualified that whites
- -Afro-Caribbean women were more likely to have A levels than white women
- Ethnic minorities were more likely than white pupils to continue into further education
- People from ethnic minorities who were born in the UK had much higher qualifications than people who moved to the UK from abroad
- Lower levels of achievement
- Bangladeshi and Pakistani women were least well qualified
- Afro-Caribbean, Pakistani and Bangladeshi men were least qualified
- Pakistani and Afro- Caribbean groups were less likely to get onto university courses
- Afro-Caribbean boys are more likely to be excluded from school, more likely to be put into lower sets and do vocational courses
- Higher levels of achievement
- Labelling Theory
- teachers have different expectations of different ethnic minority groups
- Ethnocentric school curriculum
- It is argued that the school curriculum fits the mainstream better than other ethnicities
- British education is "institutionally racist"
- Policies and attitudes unintentionally discriminate against ethnic minority groups
- Self Esteem
- Mirza - black girls had positive self esteem and high aspirations. They experienced discrimination but had strategies to minimise effects
- Fuller - Afro-Caribbean girls in London resisted negative labelling and worked hard to gain success
- Anti-school subculture V pro-school subculture
- Modood et al
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