Ethnic differences - education

Question 1

Murray

Answer 1

African/Caribbean families are more likely to be lone parent. Single mothers struggle to socialize effectively.

Question 2

Pryce

Answer 2

Asian students are more able to ignore racism effectively than b lack students. This leads to educational failure for black students.

Question 3

Driver and Ballard

Answer 3

Asian families have a pro school -attitude compared to black families. This leads to Asian families having better grades.

Question 4

Ball

Answer 4

Ethnic minority parents are at a disadvantage because they do not have the educational capital to know how the school system works

Question 5

Gillbourn and Yodell

Answer 5

Teachers hold racialized expectations which they label students with these stereotypes - making them quick to discipline ethnic minorities

Question 6

Sewell

Answer 6

It is not the absence of of fathers as role models that leads black boys under achieving - instead, it is a lack of fatherly nurturing (tough love) so they find it difficult to overcome behavioral difficulties of adolescence

Question 7

Mirza

Answer 7

Three types of teacher racism - colour blind/Liberal chauvinists/overt racists

Question 8

Gillborn (criticises Sewell)

Answer 8

It is not peer pressure or absent fathers, but institutional racism in education system that systematically produces the failure of large numbers of black boys