Ethnicity and achievement

1. What did coard say?

Despite their invisibility in the curriculum African Caribbean children maintain a relatively positive self image.
Content of education ethnocentric and ignored black people causing low self esteem among them
Studied 30 comprehensives and found African Caribbean’s noticed their invisibility in the curriculum and frustrated by the focus on slavery when black history spoken about.

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Content of education ethnocentric and ignored black people causing low self esteem among them
Despite their invisibility in the curriculum African Caribbean children maintain a relatively positive self image.
Studied 30 comprehensives and found African Caribbean’s noticed their invisibility in the curriculum and frustrated by the focus on slavery when black history spoken about.

In British Asian communities, state education seen as a blessing and high value placed on it. Lots of effort and resources go into helping children even when in poverty. The children work hard.
Among year 13 students, positive attitudes about higher education most prominent in black students.
As a result of an increased number of Lone parent families, black Caribbean boys most likely to turn to macho lads anti school subcultures due to lack of positive male role model and appropriate discipline.
Parents of Chinese pupils place an extremely high value on education

Hourly pay- Chinese > Indian > white > black Caribbean > Bangladeshi > Pakistani similar to educational achievement but black Caribbean lowest achievers
In all ethnic groups middle class > lower classes but even when class involved black Caribbean did worse that other groups
Ethnic minority parents have more cultural capital but may not be applicable in this country e.g type of qualifications

Different groups react differently to racism e.g Indians react ina Niger but don’t directly reject education like black Caribbean’s do, altering their educational achievement.
Black girls are often held back by well meaning but Miss-guided teachers e.g enter black girls into lower tier exams to be kind and “go easy” on them but comes across patronising and holds them back.
Teachers see south Asian boys as immature rather than seriously deviant, this ignorance causes them to not gain status as males in these macho subcultures. Black girls seen as disruptive but good at sports so academically ignored. South Asian girls in bet
Black males turn to anti school macho subcultures as a response to the racism they receive in school, this causes then to have a “warrior” perception while Asians are seen as “weaklings”