Internal factors: ethnicity
- Created by: Lishamxrie
- Created on: 01-02-19 10:05
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- Internal factors effecting ethnicity in education
- Labelling theory
- There are different expectations of people from ethnic minorities
- Gilborn: teachers negatively label black children
- Afro-Caribbean seen as a challenge to authority
- More likely to be excluded
- Seen as less academic
- Not as encouraged as other pupils
- High expectations of Asian students who are considered to be capable and hard working
- Afro-Caribbean seen as a challenge to authority
- Labelling leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy
- HOWEVER...
- Some pupils may take on a self negating prophecy: they do not accept the labels teachers give them and challenge the racial agenda
- Relate to Fuller
- Some pupils may take on a self negating prophecy: they do not accept the labels teachers give them and challenge the racial agenda
- Hidden/ ethnocentric curriculum
- Schools structed to reflect their own culture
- Assemblies
- History
- Language
- Religious studies
- Fit white European culture (learns European history/ languages)
- Books may give stereotypical views
- Stereotypes and ignores black culture
- Tikly
- Afro-Caribbeans resent their invisibility in the curriculum and there form anti-school subcultures
- HOWEVER...
- The education system has become more diverse in recent years, with the curriculum offering subjects such as Mandarin and also focusing in the Black movement/ awareness
- Schools structed to reflect their own culture
- Lack of black teachers and role models
- There is significantly less black teachers in schools
- Less black teachers seen in a position of authority
- May be confined to what they teach (e.g. language support)
- Institutional racism
- Policies tend to favour white middle class pupils
- Because of teacher attitudes, black pupils may be put into lower sets
- Wright: Asian children may be excluded from discussion work as teachers doubt their language abilities
- HOWEVER...
- Fuller: Black girls see educational success as a way of challenging put downs of black male peers and racism from teachers
- Labelling theory
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