ETHNIC

Question 1

What do cultural deprivation theorist say about intellectual and linguistic skills?

Answer 1

This is a reason for ethnic minority student’s underacheivement

Question 2

What is said about students from black families?

Answer 2

They lack intellectual stimulation and enriching experiences making them ill prepared for school and likely to fail

Question 3

What does Berteiter and Engleman say about language spoken in black families?

Answer 3

Language spoken in black families is ungrammatical/disjoint and doesn’t express abstract ideas so it is inadequate for educational success

Question 4

What demographic of students concerns about falling behind are dismissed?

Answer 4

EAL students

Question 5

What does Gillborn and Mirza (2000) say about Indian students?

Answer 5

Indian students excel despite English being their second language

Question 6

What does Sewell argue about the reason for black student’s underacheivement?

Answer 6

Lack of fatherly love (discipline) so fatherless boys turn to the streets gangs where they get perverse loyalty and love and academic black boys are labelled as ‘sell outs’ subject to peer pressure by gangs so the underacheivement comes from cultural differences in socialisation and poor attitudes to education.

Question 7

What does Arnot (2004) say reinforces the gang persona of black students?

Answer 7

The ‘ultra-tough ghetto superstar’ that is reinforced by MTV and rap music

Question 8

Why does Gillborn (2008) say the issue is not peer pressure?

Answer 8

The issue is institutional racism that is reproducing black boys failiure

Question 9

What does Sewell say that Indian and Chinese families benefit from?

Answer 9

Supportive families that place high value of education e.g.Asain work ethic

Question 10

What does Lupton (2004) say about Asian families and what does this mean for the education system?

Answer 10

Adult authority like the ones in school where children’s respect to adults is expected meaning that Asain families are more likely to support behaviour policies

Question 11

What does McCulloch say about white WC pupils?

Answer 11

Survey of 16k students found that ethnic minorities aspire to go to uni more than white WC students

Question 12

What does Evans (2006) argue about while WC pupils?

Answer 12

White WCs street culture is brutal, so pupils learn to withstand intimidation and intimidate others. This culture is taken into schools making it a power game causing distruption and therefore educational failiure

Question 13

What do cultural deprivation theorists argue about black pupils?

Answer 13

Lack of motivation causes black students to fail they are not socialised into the mainstream culture of competitiveness, ambition sacrifices for future goals

Question 14

What type of values are black students socialised into?

Answer 14

A fatalistic ‘live for today’ attitude that does not value education

Question 15

What do cultural deprivation theorists say that failing to properly socialise a child comes from?

Answer 15

Having a dysfunctional family strucutre (conflict etc)

Question 16

What does Murray (1984) is the reason for minorities’ underacheivement?

Answer 16

Argues that high rates of lone parents and lack of role models lead to minorities’ underacheivement