Cultural Deprivation- Family Life and Parental Support

Question 1

The Swann Report + Pilkington

Answer 1

Pupils from some minority ethnic groups have greater parental support than others
Asian family life- close-knit, extended families, high aspirations for children + supportive attitudes
Wider cultural values encourage high levels of achievement, higher than, for example, Black Caribbean

Question 2

Lupton

Answer 2

Lower w/c British families (white) in most disadvantaged areas have an indifferent or negative attitude towards learning and teachers, as well as low aspirations for children

Question 3

Bhatti

Answer 3

Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Indian-Asian parents were very supportive, but often didn’t know much about daily processes of schools or how to approach teachers. Many found school unwelcoming

Question 4

Loose Information??? Sort of in Bhatti bit???

Answer 4

Black Caribbean communities have higher levels of lone parenthood, may pose financial and practical problems in supporting education
B C women often main breadwinners, may provide encouragement for B C girls- outperform boys

Question 5

Vincent et al

Answer 5

Black, m/c parents involved in children’s’ schooling- extra-curriculars, tutoring, effort to meet teachers, carrying out research to demonstrate knowledge + interest to teachers
Teachers treated them as knowing less than white peers- expected lack of interest

Question 6

Wright, Standen, and Patel

Answer 6

High levels of support for education in Black community in accessing educational opportunities and building positive self-esteem

Question 7

Moon and Ivins

Answer 7

Phone survey- representative sample of over 1500 parents/carers of minority ethnic children
Parental involvement higher, saw education as mainly parent’s responsibility, particularly B C + Bangladeshi
High proportion, 82%, went to parents’ evenings, but Bangladeshi and Pakistani parents less confident in hw help

Question 8

Modood

Answer 8

Parental aspiration, support, and encouragement an important factor in explaining why ethnic minority students more likely to enter higher education
2013- over 24% accepted applicants to UK unis were from ethnic minorities- nearly double proportion in population as a whole