EDUCATION: Ethnicity and education - External factors (New right view + criticisms) Flashcards
NEW RIGHT VIEW
Reasons for underachievement in ethnic minorities:
Murray
- Sewell
Scruton
MURRAY: A high rate of lone parent hood and lack of positive male roles models leads to underachievement of some minorities
SCRUTON: Sees underachievement levels of some ethnic minorities due to a failure to embrace mainstream British culture
NEW RIGHT VIEW
What does Sewell argue about role models and how does this cause underachievement in young males
Not lack of male role models, lack of consistent discipline / ‘fatherly tough love’ = emotional and behavioural difficulties.
= street gangs of other fatherless boys and media inspired role model of anti-school black masculinity
NEW RIGHT VIEW
- Sewell and peer pressure
- Sewell and asian and black minorities
EVALUATION:
Gillborn
- Peer pressure impacts children as they are subject to powerful anti-school peer pressure
- Compared black boys to asian students - one group is being nurtured while the other is ‘clocking up educational hours’
GILLBORN: Its not peer pressure, but institutional racism in the education system itself that produces the failure of large numbers of black boys
CULT DEP CRITICISMS
Vincent Et Al
Moon + Ivnis
VINCENT: black mc parents are concerned about their child’s education, actively involved and enrol students into extracurricular activities but found teachers assumed they know less about their child’s education
MOON + IVINS: Parental involvement was greater in ethnic minorities than the population as a whole
NEW RIGHT VIEW
Pryce
- What is his argument as to why there is underachievement comparing asian to black Caribbean culture
- Asian culture
- Black Caribbean culture
- Conclusion
Due to the different impacts of colonialism
- Asians are high achievers because culture is more resistant to racism = greater self worth
- Black Caribbean culture is less cohesive and resistant to racism = low self esteem = failure
- Experience of slavery was devastating for blacks; lost everything but asian heritage was not destroyed by colonial rule
CULT DEP CRITICISMS
Driver
Lawrence
Strand
DRIVER: Positive effects of cultural deprivation are ignored
- Black Caribbean families provides girls with a strong mother role model. = possibly why black girls achieve more than black boys
LAWRENCE: Challenges PRYCE and low self-esteem.
- Black pupils underachieve because of racism, not low self-esteem
STRAND: Relative poverty rather than cultural factors + institutional racism leads to a lack of opportunity for young black students is holding them back
CULT DEP CRITICISMS
Keddie
- Why does she argue against cultural deprivation
- So why do ethnic minorities underachieve?
- How does she suggest we overcome this
KEDDIE: Cultural deprivation is a victim blaming explanation. Ethnic minority children are culturally different, not deprived.
- Underachieve because schools are ethnocentric = imposing dominant white culture
- Overcome this using alternative education in the school system
Multicultural education: policy recognising and valuing minority cultures, including them in the curriculum
Anti-racist curriculum: policy that challenges thee prejudice and discrimination that exists in schools and the wider society
