Ethnicity Flashcards
ethnicity - who has the highest level of attainment?
chinese and indian
ethnicity - who has the lowest level of attainment?
black caribbean pakistani bangladeshi roma irish-heitage gypsies below average reading skills, overrepresented in special needs schools, behind in KS1
ethnicity - blacks are more likely yo be what what than whites?
excluded
overrepresented in lower streams
ethnicity - social class and material factors
minority ethnic groups more likely to live in low-income households indian/chinese more likely to come from professional middle-class backgrounds differences between ethnic groups in educations more to do with social/economic disadvantage than ethnicity
ethnicity - how many ethnic minorities live in poverty?
2/5
ethnicity - how many percentage of pupils didn’t have english as their first language?
18% - primary school
13% - secondary school
ethnicity - language
english as second language causes lower levels of attainment on starting school & difficult in schoolwork/communicating
middle-class teachers perceive this and heavy accents as lack of ability and is penalised
discouraged of using mother tongue, negative labelling -> self-fulfilling prophecy
ethnicity - department of education on language
pupils with english as their second language outperform in the Ebacc than those who its their mother tongue
attainment of chinese/indian shows that language differences doesn’t form a barrier to success
ethnicity - family life and parental support (asians)
close-knit extended families with high aspirations and supportive attitudes
bhatti; asian parents are very supportive, have high levels of interest but lack of education means they can’t help, don’t know about experiences of schooling, feel unwelcome by teachers
asian girls discriminated against, teachers assume they’ll be passive due to cultural assumptions
ethnicity - family life and parental support (black caribbean)
high levels of lone parenthood create financial/practical problems middle-class parents concerned/involved but teachers treat them as they know less or less interested than whites
ethnicity - lupton
working-class white british families have negative attitudes towards school and low aspirations
ethnicity - moon & vins study
parental involvement was greater in ethnic minorities than in population as a whole
82% went to parents evening
working-class caribbean and asian parents more successful than white british at getting their children to stay in education
ethnicity - racism (race-related name-calling)
reported by significant number of minority ethnic pupils
lower self-esteem
makes schooling more distressing
ethnicity - racism (teachers)
teachers with racist attitudes unintentionally favour and give more time/attention to white pupils than caribbean’s
ethnicity - racism (bhatti)
racist behaviour was:
- being ignored
- not being helped
- unfairly picked for punishment
