EDUCATION: ethnicity & educational attainment

Question 1

Ken Pryce

Answer 1

Family structure contributes to under achievement of black carribean pupils. - Absent fathers
Slavery was culturally devastating. They lost language, religion and family system.
Asian pupils are less resistant to racism as their culture gives them a greater sense of self-worth.
Asians were able to maintain identity throughout colonialism.

Question 2

John Rex

Answer 2

Racial discrimination in wider society leads to social exclusion & this worsens the poverty ethnic minorities face.
e.g. housing and jobs

Question 3

Driver & Ballard

Answer 3

Asian family structures are beneficial to educational attainment as Asian parents have high aspirations for their children & a positive attitude to education.

Question 4

Cecil Wright

Answer 4

Asian pupils are subject to teacher labelling
Asian pupils are labelled as having poor English skills
Teachers are ethnocentric - British culture and language are assumed superior
Asian pupils felt ignored and isolated

Question 5

Heidi Mirza

Answer 5

Over racists
Colour blind
Crusaders
Black teachers
The only teachers that would relate to black children were black teachers.
The response of kids was that they became anti school

Question 6

Martin Mac an Ghail

Answer 6

Students actively tried to disprove unfair racist labels that were attached to them

Question 7

Bernard Coard

Answer 7

An ethnocentric curriculum isolates pupils of ethnic minorities.
They feel inferior and have low self esteem.

Question 8

4 factors that might disadvantage ethnic minority pupils

Answer 8

Cultural deprivation
Material deprivation
Discrimination
Marginalisation

Question 9

Which ethnicity and gender does best in the british education system?

Answer 9

Chinese girls

Question 10

Which ethnicity and gender does worst in the british education system?

Answer 10

Black boys