Differences in educational achievements (racial backgrounds) Flashcards
How can the curriculum impact the achievement of some students?
Coard (1971)
The lack of Black history, culture and success on the curriculum has led to lower self esteem among some students.
A disconnect between a cultural experience outside of school and inside school can lead to alienation.
Gillborn (2002) institutional racism
Teachers interpret policy in a way that disadvantages Black students. For example, the way students are deemed to be gifted and talented or written off as “no hopers”.
Sewell (1997)
- higher proportion of single parent households in black communities may explain educational disadvantage
- lack of role models
What has been asserted as a reason for more detentions / exclusions for some ethnic minority students in schools?
Teachers misinterpret dress or speech or language choice as a severe challenge to authority.
What have O’Donnell and Sharpe concluded regarding teacher labels, racism and poor economic prospects?
In responding to a mix of teacher labelling and external factors of racism and poor economic prospects, black males construct a form of masculinity that earns respect from male peers and females.
→ Sewell (2007)
Being a “street hood” becomes a way to gain validation among peers as academic achievement is seen to be feminine
What is the A-C economy that Gillborn and Youdell asserted existed in schools in the 1990s/2000s?
As schools were judged on how many students could get a C or above, some students were written off as “no hopers”. Black males were disproportionately written off.
Why could it be argued that some minorities experience less racism in schools than others?
→ Connolly (1998)
Research found that teachers tended to see South Asian boys as immature as opposed to deviant.
How has it been argued by O’Donnell that some students respond differently to racism in school than others?
some used it as motivation. This was particularly witnessed in the attitudes of Black girls.
Modood (2004)
- success from some ethnic minority students may be explained through cultural capital
- many ethnic minority parents have higher cultural capital than their income or class position
Out of school factors
- immigrants who may have strong accents may find accents limit their dialect
- Abbott (2002): argues there’s lack of positive black role models
Cultural out of school factors
- Archer and Francis (2006):
Families that place high importance on education have better educational achievement (chinese parents particularly) - Basit (2013):
even the relatively poor asian families found a way to provide space at home for studying
communal sense for the next generation to do better
