Ethinicty and educational attainment (Internal factors)

Question 1

Internal factors

Answer 1

• Ethnocentric curriculum
• Selection and labelling
• Racialised expectations
• Ideal pupil identity

Question 2

Cecile Wright

Answer 2

Teacher labelling of Asian pupils - observed during ethnographic study that teachers ignored them and looked down on them

Institutional racism - Many being wrongly placed based on wrong assumptions

Question 3

Heidi Mirza

Answer 3

Selection and racism

Question 4

Mairtin Mac an Ghail

Answer 4

Black sixth formers resisting racism

• rejecting the negative labelling and finding strategies to cope

Question 5

Paul Connolly

Answer 5

Teacher attitudes to ethnicity and gender

• More likely to criticise black boys
• Black boys - negative attitudes
• Asian boys - high expectations

Question 6

Bernard Coard

Answer 6

• Ethnocentric curriculum

* Black self-esteem

Question 7

David Gillborn - Critical race theory

Answer 7

• Racialised expectations
• Model minorities
• locked in equality
• The assessment game and the new IQism
• Teachers and student potential