Unit 2- Processes Inside School

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Processes Inside School
Labelling, Curriculum and Prejudice are factors.
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Labellign Theory
Teachers have different expectations of ethnic minority groups.
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Gillborn (1990)
Found teacher sometimes negatively label black students, Afro-caribbean students were seen as a challenge to school authority, more likely to be excluded from school.Teachers had high expectations of asians, couls lead to selffulfilling prophecy good
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School Curriculum
There is an issue on whether its ethnocentric, i.e. that it might fit the mainstream,white,middle class culture better than other ethnicities. It could also be Europe-centred too.
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Some Sociologists- British overview
See British education as "institutionally racist". This is where the policies and attitudes unintentionallydiscriminate agaianst ethnic minority groups.
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Card 2

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Teachers have different expectations of ethnic minority groups.

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Labellign Theory

Card 3

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Found teacher sometimes negatively label black students, Afro-caribbean students were seen as a challenge to school authority, more likely to be excluded from school.Teachers had high expectations of asians, couls lead to selffulfilling prophecy good

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Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

There is an issue on whether its ethnocentric, i.e. that it might fit the mainstream,white,middle class culture better than other ethnicities. It could also be Europe-centred too.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

See British education as "institutionally racist". This is where the policies and attitudes unintentionallydiscriminate agaianst ethnic minority groups.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5

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