Ethnicity & Achievement Flashcards
Purdah
A practice where women are not able to enter the public sphere of social life without a male relative present.
Racism
Refers to discrimination and prejudice against people based on their skin colour, heritage and religion.
Asian work ethic
Asian parents have higher expectations of their children and parents are more likely to be supportive of teachers and schools despite other barriers like material deprivation and racism.
Teacher labelling
A process in which a teacher makes an assumption about a pupil and then begins to treat the pupil as though their initial judgment is definitely true.
Pupil identities
How students view themselves as students.
Institutional racism
The overall organization of education operates in a way which is racist towards ethnic minority pupils
Racialised expectations
Teachers hold expectations based upon pupils race.
Ethnocentric
When British culture and values are seen to be superior to others. The curriculum is taught to be tailored around white culture largely ignoring other ethnic groups. History & languages.
Ideal pupil
A white, middle class pupil with a masculinized and confident personality and a normal sexual and gender identity.
Pathologised pupil
Typically an Asian pupil from a poorer background, they are looked upon as more feminised with lacking confidence and are judged for being sexually oppressed. They are assumed to lack intelligence so when they do well they are judged to have over achieved.
Demonised pupil
Typically black or white working class pupils that are regarded as lacking intelligence with the expectation to under achieve. Teachers assume them to be more interested in socializing than studying and see them as hyper-sexualised and they are regarded as threatening.
Model minority
A pupil who succeeds through excessive conformity to the rules but don’t fit into the ideal pupil category because teachers don’t relate to them in the same way as they do with the more socially confident middle class pupil. Often Chinese pupils.
Colour-blind teachers
Teachers who themselves didn’t possess racial prejudices but naively assumed that racism was not a major problem. They tended not to pick up on others racism but didn’t challenge it.
Liberal chauvinists
Teachers who presume that ethnic minority pupils were less able than white pupils and saw it as their mission to “help” them overcome barriers such as cultural deprivation.
Rebels
The development of an overtly anti-school attitude, rejecting school rules and created their own, usually engaging in hyper-masculine subcultural groups and looked down on conformists.
