Ethnicity Flashcards
Who does better than the ethnic majority?
Indians and Chinese
Who doesn’t perform as well
Pakistani Bangladeshi and Afro Caribbean
archer
Chinese families push importance of education onto their children
Sewell
Afro caribbeans have a lone parent which means boy don’t have a strong male role model
What is Jayleigh
A comprehensive school
Jayleigh
At greater proportion of white pupils were entered in to gcses than Asian pupil
% of Jayleigh
77% white
70% Asian
In what year was Jayleigh
1988
In Jayleigh what was said about sets
Asians needed higher marks than whites to get into the higher sets
When was Cecile Wrights research conducted
1988/89
Cecile wright
Found that teachers perceived and treated ethnic miniority pupils differently from white pupils
Who received the least about of attention - Cecile Wright
Asian children
Why were Asians ignored
Teachers assumed that their command of English was insufficient
Who was expected to behave badly
African Caribbean boys
African Caribbean boys description (3)
Aggressive
Disobedient
Disruptive
Gilborn 1990 study
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
Where was Gilborns study?
Inner city comprehensive school
Mac and Ghaill study
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
What did wright mac and ghaill and gillborn all use
Ethnography
What is ethnography
Involves observation of small groups often over a long period of time
Were all the samples small
Yes and therefore generalisations couldn’t be made
Foster
He found no evidence of racism and African Caribbean girls outperformed white students
Foster place
In community of long term ethnic cooperation and the staff were involved in an anti-racist programme
