Ethnicity Flashcards
What ethnicity of students are more likely to do better within education?
Indian
Chinese
What ethnicity of students do not do as well?
Pakistan
Bangladesh
African-Caribbean
Travellers
What gender of African-Caribbean students do better?
Girls
What gender of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Travellers do better?
Boys
What type of class are Indian and Chinese families more likely to be?
Middle class as they replaced the lack of skills in the UK Chosen to be doctors in the UK Due to when migration occurred
What does Archer believe?
Chinese families really push the importance of education
Child’s achievement give them social status
What does Sewell believe?
African-Caribbean have more single parent families
Usually mother so there is no father figure
What is the 4 different sub-cultures?
Conformists
Innovators
Retreatists
Rebels
What are conformists?
Pro-school
What are innovators?
Don’t try but do well
Not bothered by the process
What are retreatists?
In their own world
Like to be invisible
Form own subcultures
Obsess over one things
What are rebels?
Anti-school
Don’t try
Joke around
Don’s take school seriously
What is the curriculum?
Ethnocentric
What does ethnocentric mean?
Typically English
Authors mainly white
The understanding of peoples culture dissapears
