Ethnicity And Acheivement (external) Flashcards
Cultural deprivation
The lack of culture or knowledge
Linguistic skills
How well you can use and understand language
Fatalistic attitude
When people believe that their fate had been decided and there’s nothing they can do about it
Dysfunctional family structure
relationships and interactions are unhealthy in a family
Racism in wider society
Discrimination based on race that affects thing in life
Compensatory education
Provides extra support to students who may be disadvantaged
Multiculturalism
The idea of celebrating the diverse cultures and backgrounds in a society
Anti racist education
Teaching that aims to get rid of racism
Material deprivation
Not having enough basic things like food, clothes because of not having the money for it
Murray
High rate of lone parenthood and lack of positive male role models leads to under achievement of some groups
Sewell
Black boys are subject to powerful anti educational peer group pressure
Gillborn
Failure of large number of black boys
Keddie
Cultural deprivation theory is victim blaming, ethnic groups are culturally different not culturally deprived
Lupton
Adult authority in Asian families are similar to models that operate in schools. Teachers reported poorer levels of of behaviours in white working class and blamed it on negative attitudes of parents
Driver
Black Caribbean families provide girls with positive role models of strong independent women, black girl are more successful in education than black boys
