Two internal factors for underachievement of ethnic minority pupils
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- Outline & explain two school factors that may lead to the educational underachievement of pupils from some minority ethnic backgrounds
- Labelling
- Teachers assign characteristics to pupils based on their ethnicity
- E.g. Afro-Caribbean boys are likely to be labelled as badly behaved
- Pupils internalise these labels & act accordingly
- E.g. by rejecting school values; playing truant or disrespecting the teacher
- Leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy
- Ev. Too deterministic e.g. Fuller
- Teachers assign characteristics to pupils based on their ethnicity
- The ethnocentric curriculum
- Where the curriculum focuses on the dominant culture & neglects minorities
- E.g. focusing on British history & neglecting Asian & African history
- Negative portrayal of non-white culture
- Where the curriculum focuses on the dominant culture & neglects minorities
- Labelling
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