7ED

Question 1

What are some external reasons for ethnic differences in achievement?

Answer 1

• Linguistic skills
• Housing
• Racism in wider society

Question 2

What did Engelmann say about black families linguistic skills?

Answer 2

• They are inadequate for educational success and children who do not speak english at home will be held back in education

Question 3

Criticism of Englemann linguistic skills

Answer 3

• Mirza: Indian pupils are doing very well in school even though they may not have English as their home language

Question 4

What did Harker say about ethic minorities housing and educational achievement?

Answer 4

• Ethic minorities are 13% more likely to have poor, overcrowded houses
• This could make it hard for children to study and they could have difficulty concentrating and a lack of sleep due to sharing bedrooms

Question 5

What did Wood find out about racism in wider society and educational achievement?

Answer 5

• People with a more diverse surname will be more likely to get turned down for jobs

Question 6

What are some internal reasons for ethic differences in education achievement?

Answer 6

• Labelling
• Pupil responses/ subcultures
• Pupil identifies

Question 7

What did Gillborn say about labelling on ethic achievement?

Answer 7

• Black students were shown to be less ideal and were seen as disruptive
• This causes conflict between teachers and black students, leads to educational underachievement

Question 8

What did Archer find about pupil identities and ethic minorities?

Answer 8

• Black students were often the demonised student type

Question 9

What 3 types of pupil identities are there according to Archer?

Answer 9

• Ideal pupil
• Pathologised pupil
• Demonised pupil

Question 10

What is Archers ideal pupil identity?

Answer 10

• White, middle class, achieving through natural ability

Question 11

What was Archers pathologised pupil identity?

Answer 11

• Plodding conformist, succeeds through hard work not natural ability

Question 12

What is Archers demonised pupil identity?

Answer 12

• Black, working class, unintelligent, peer led, under achieving

Question 13

What did Fuller find about ethnic pupil responses/subcultures?

Answer 13

• African American girls were labelled badly and wanted to prove teachers wrong
• Rejected help from teachers and wanted to succeed on their own
• Anti school, pro education