1. LABELLING AND TEACHER RACISM

Question 1

What do interactionists focus on when looking at ethnic differences in achievement?

Answer 1

The different labels given to them by the teachers

Question 2

How are black and Asian pupils viewed?

Answer 2

a. Far from the ‘ideal’ pupil
b. Black students- seen as disruptive
c. Asian students- seen as passive

Question 3

Gillborn and Youdell (2000)

Answer 3

a. Teachers were quicker to discipline black pupils than others for the same behaviour due to ‘racialised expectations’
b. This may explain the higher levels of exclusions for black boys
c. Agrees with Bourne (1994) that schools tend to see black boys as a threat

Question 4

Osler (2001)

Answer 4

a. Black pupils appear more likely to suffer from unrecorded unofficial exclusions
b. More likely to be placed in pupil referral units

Question 5

Foster (1990)

Answer 5

Teachers’ stereotypes of black pupils could result in them being placed in lower sets than other pupils of similar ability

Question 6

Wright’s (1992) study of a multi-ethnic primary school

Answer 6

a. Teachers held ethnocentric views
b. Teachers assumed they would have a poor grasp of English, left them out of class discussions, used simplistic language