DEA ETHNICITY - external Flashcards
What % of the school population is made up of white students?
80%
What do Bereiter and Engelmann state about the language of low income black American families?
It was ungrammatical, disjointed and incapable of expressing abstract ideas.
What do official stats show about language and educational development?
Official stats on attainment 8 scores show that children’s whose first language isn’t English perform better than those who only speak English at home.
What did the Gladstone primary school state about cultural deprivation?
If the child is C.D at home, coming to school will change that.
School’s range of diversity educates children into viewing everyone as equal - everyone has same opportunity to do well.
School provides bilingual TA in every classroom so no student goes unheard.
How do Platt and Parsons criticise the belief that black children do not value education?
They find that the majority of ME groups had higher expectations for highly paid jobs compared to their white counterparts. Shows minority ethnic groups are not socialising their children into low aspirations.
Who are the most successful groups of children?
British Chinese pupils are more successful than any other ethnic group in the British education system.
What did Archer and Francis discover about Chinese parents?
They place a high value on education.
Beliefs stem from family values and hierarchy - make their way into the classroom - respect their older peers and never question teachers.
THE RIGHT MINDSET - more likely to succeed if they believed they tried hard enough.
What did Basit find about Pakistani, Hindu and Muslim faiths and their perspective on education?
High value on education and saw free state education as a blessing - more opportunities offered than in their country of origin.
Parents put large effort and resources into supporting their children.
Expected their children to work hard, and even the poor parents ensured that their child had a place to study, a desk, a computer and internet access.
What did Lupton state about adult authority in Asian families?
It is similar to that of the authority in schools.
Respectful behaviour was expected from children at home and this had a knock on effect towards teachers in schools.
Parents were more likely to support the school’s behaviour policy.
Give an evaluation of Lupton’s theory
Risk of over-generalising Asian success.
61% of mixed white/Asian students got C or above.
Pakistani children on average do worse than national average.
What did bagguley and hussain find about aspirations of pakistani and bangladeshi women?
Their aspirations were often complicated by cultural pressures, such as marriage and parental expectations.
Pressure to stay home and conform to standard of a housewife.
What did Moynihan state about dysfunctional family structures and a failure of socialisation?
Many families are headed by lone parents so are deprived of adequate care - financial struggles in absence of male breadwinner.
Leads to boys not having a male role-model of achievement, so boys then become absent fathers too.
What did Tony Sewell say about gang culture?
High proportion of Black African pupils raised without a male role model.
Some boys may be attracted to gangs that encourage aggressive or macho masculinity which does not value or respect authority - lack of concern for educational attainment.
ONLY AFFECTS A MINORITY OF BLACK BOYS BUT IS ENOUGH TO REDUCE OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF ALL BLACK MINORITY GROUPS!
What does Sewell believe is the greatest barrier to success?
Pressure from other boys.
Speaking standard English and doing well at school were often viewed with suspicion from peers and is seen as ‘selling out to the white establishment.’
How can compensatory education help?
Offers resources for disadvantaged students with a deprived background.
