Ethnicity

Question 1

Define ‘ethnicity’

Answer 1

A group of individuals with shared culture, heritage and identity

Question 2

Which ethnic group is achieving the most?

Answer 2

Asian - Indian and Chinese

Question 3

Which ethnic group is underachieving?

Answer 3

Afro-Caribbean, Bangladeshi and Pakistani

Question 4

[CD] Bereiter and Engelmann

Answer 4

Black - less likely to use intellectual stimulation - required for education success. Restricted code.

Question 5

[CD] Critique of Bereiter and Engelmann

Answer 5

Troyna and Williams - Many Indians do not speak English as their first language yet they still succeed

Question 6

[CD] New Right

Answer 6

Afro-Caribbean hold fatalistic, “live for today” values so they don’t value education and aren’t encouraged to work hard for educational success

Question 7

[CD] Scruton, New Right

Answer 7

Ethnic minorities fail to integrate into the mainstream British values therefore they fail in education

Question 8

[CD] Critique of Scruton and New Right

Answer 8

Racist - assume e/m are inferior

Question 9

[CD] Moynihan

Answer 9

Many black e/m families are brought up in matrifocal lone parent families which leads them into educational failure as they have a lack of male role model. Deprived of adequate care + mother struggles financially

Question 10

[CD] Murray

Answer 10

Black e/m fail as a result of a lack of male role models and they see deprivation as a cycle which repeats itself from generation to generation

Question 11

[CD] Critique of Murray

Answer 11

Ignore white nuclear families who are unable to socialise their children properly

Question 12

[CD] Sewell - Asian e/m

Answer 12

Asian kids do better because they are brought up in supportive close knit families - “asian work ethic”, high value placed on education

Question 13

[CD] Sewell - Black e/m

Answer 13

Black boys do not have a lack of male role model but receive tough love so they struggle to overcome emotional difficulties so instead they turn to music, gangs and violent youth subcultures.

This gives them anti school attitudes

Question 14

[CD] Critique of Sewell

Answer 14

Gilborn - e/m fail due to institutional racism

Question 15

[CD] Lumpton

Answer 15

Asian families hold similar values to the school policies + similar behaviour expectations

Question 16

[CD] McCulloch

Answer 16

White w/c do not encourage their children to achieve - low aspirations for their children`

Question 17

[CD] Driver - Criticism of Cultural Deprivation Theorists

Answer 17

Ethnicity can provide a positive effect on achievement e.g. Black girls do better than boys since they have a positive male role model

Question 18

[CD] Keddie - Critique of Cultural Deprivation Theorists

Answer 18

Aren’t culturally deprived, they’re culturally different - the curriculum is ethnocentric. This could be solved with multi-faith education

Question 19

[MD] Palmer

Answer 19

E/m are more likely to be w/c - e/m like Pakistani and Bangladeshi live in poorer areas with high unemployment

Question 20

[RIWS] Mason

Answer 20

Discrimination is a persistent feature in the lives of e/m in the UK

Question 21

[RIWS] Rex

Answer 21

E/m are forced into substandard housing by the council - example of racism in society