Ethnicity and Education

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  • Created on: 20-05-19 08:34
What are the 6 External Factors creating ethnic Differences in achievement?
Family structure, Attitudes and values, Material deprivation, Linguistic skills, Racism in wider society, Culture of resistance
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What are the 5 internal Factors creating ethnic differences in achievement?
Pupil identities, Ethnocentric curriculum ,Pupil subcultures, Labelling and teacher racism, New IQ'ism
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What Statistics about Ethnic minority children support Material Deprivation theory?
Almost 1/2 of all EM children live in Low income households compared to 1/4 white children
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What Statistic about Ethnic minority employment supports Material Deprivation theory?
Ethnic Minorities are 2x as likley to be unemployed compared to white people
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What cultural factors support the theory of material deprivation?
Practice of Purdah by women in some muslim households prevents them from working outside the home
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What statistics contradict the theory of Material deprivation affecting educational attainement?
86% of chinese girls receiving Free school meals achieved 5 or more higher grade GCSEs compared to only 65% of white girls not on FSM
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What does Rex say Racial discrimination in wider society lead to?
Social Exclusion, which worsens poverty, and leads to housing discrimination and EMs more likely to be forced in substandard accommodation compared to white people
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What Study did Wood et Al conduct investigating Racial Discrimination within employement?
Put forward 1000 job applications with fictitious characters with a ratio of 1 white applicant to 2 EM, 1/16 EM got offered an interview compared to 1/9 white
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What evidence do Gilborn and Youdell provide that supports Labelling and Racism Theory?
Teachers were quicker to discipline back pupils than others for the same behaviour as a result of racialised expectations
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What expectations do Teachers have of black pupils that leads to labelling?
Expect them to have more discipline problems and see their behaviour as threatening or challenging authority
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What does Labelling lead to?
Pupils responding negatively which leads to further conflict
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What do black people feel about teachers?
That they underestimate their abilities
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What did Gilborn and Youdell conclude about the conflict between black pupils and white teachers?
That the conflict stems from racialised expectations rather than the pupils actual behaviour
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What are the 3 Pupil identities Archer identifies?
Ideal, Pathologised and Demonised
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What does Archer believe defines EM groups as not being the Ideal Pupils?
The Dominant Discourse- which is a way of seeing something
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What is a Pathologised Pupil?
Asian, deserving poor, a-sexual , over achiever through hard work rather than natural ability
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What is a Demonised Pupil?
Black/white working class, hyper-sexual identities, seen as unintelligent and peer led
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What does Bourne argue about in relation to black boys and Exclusions?
Black boys are twice as likely to be excluded compared to white boys, schools see black boys as a threat and label them negatively eventually leading to exclusion
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What statistic shows exclusion leads to educational failure?
1 in 5 excluded pupils achieve 5 GCSEs
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What does Osler say Black pupils are more likely to experience?
Unrecorded exclusions and internal exclusions e.g. being sent out of class and placed in pupil referal units excluding them from access to mainstream curriculum
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