Ethnicity

Question 1

Who does better than the ethnic majority?

Answer 1

Indians and Chinese

Question 2

Who doesn’t perform as well

Answer 2

Pakistani Bangladeshi and Afro Caribbean

Question 3

archer

Answer 3

Chinese families push importance of education onto their children

Question 4

Sewell

Answer 4

Afro caribbeans have a lone parent which means boy don’t have a strong male role model

Question 5

What is Jayleigh

Answer 5

A comprehensive school

Question 6

Jayleigh

Answer 6

At greater proportion of white pupils were entered in to gcses than Asian pupil

Question 7

% of Jayleigh

Answer 7

77% white

70% Asian

Question 8

In what year was Jayleigh

Answer 8

1988

Question 9

In Jayleigh what was said about sets

Answer 9

Asians needed higher marks than whites to get into the higher sets

Question 10

When was Cecile Wrights research conducted

Answer 10

1988/89

Question 11

Cecile wright

Answer 11

Found that teachers perceived and treated ethnic miniority pupils differently from white pupils

Question 12

Who received the least about of attention - Cecile Wright

Answer 12

Asian children

Question 13

Why were Asians ignored

Answer 13

Teachers assumed that their command of English was insufficient

Question 14

Who was expected to behave badly

Answer 14

African Caribbean boys

Question 15

African Caribbean boys description (3)

Answer 15

Aggressive
Disobedient
Disruptive

Question 16

Gilborn 1990 study

Answer 16

Vast majority of teachers saw African Caribbean students as a threat and as a result disciplined them by criticising them and punishing them although other member of ethnic groups committed the same offence

Question 17

Where was Gilborns study?

Answer 17

Inner city comprehensive school

Question 18

Mac and Ghaill study

Answer 18

Students attitudes affected which set they were put into. West Indians were very good at maths but some of their attitudes lead to them being in lower sets

Question 19

What did wright mac and ghaill and gillborn all use

Answer 19

Ethnography

Question 20

What is ethnography

Answer 20

Involves observation of small groups often over a long period of time

Question 21

Were all the samples small

Answer 21

Yes and therefore generalisations couldn’t be made

Question 22

Foster

Answer 22

He found no evidence of racism and African Caribbean girls outperformed white students

Question 23

Foster place

Answer 23

In community of long term ethnic cooperation and the staff were involved in an anti-racist programme