Ethnicity and achievement- interal

Question 1

internal factors of racism in school

Answer 1

• lack of multi-cultural teaching staff
• school curriculum
• lack of recognition of cultural beliefs and values
• langauge used in schools
• teachers attitudes
• racism by pupils not tracked

Question 2

racism in pupils: cline et al

Answer 2

racism more common among pupils in school.
impacts achievement as students might not want to come to school or participate

Question 3

explain teacher expectations and sterotyping

Answer 3

may reflect some degree of conscious or unconscious racism

Question 4

teacher expectations and stereotypes: Archer pupil identities categories

Answer 4

3 categories teachers put students into:
1. ideal pupil identity: white, middle class, masculinised identity
2. pathologised pupil identity: asian feminised identity, conformist, culture bound over achiever
3. demonised pupil identity: black/white working class hypersexualised identity, unintelligent

Question 5

how are black students categorised according to Archer?

Answer 5

Demonised- loud, challenging, excessively sexual

Question 6

how are Asian girls categorised according to Archer ?

Answer 6

quiet, passive, doctile. when go against this= dealt with more severely than others

Question 7

Gilborn and Youdell

Answer 7

African Caribean boys-
- teachers expected poor behaviour
- slightest behavioural issue was intrpreted as serious challenge to authoriyty
- black pupils felt picked on/ excluded and underestimated
- contrasts ‘high expectations’ label applied to Asian students

Question 8

Wright

Answer 8

Asian Pupils
- teachers assumed pupils had poor grasp with english
- often left them out of class discussions
- may be more likely to forget students
- found that Asian girls got less attention de to teachers disapproving of their cultural traditions

Question 9

Criticism of racist labelling

Answer 9

Margret Fuller, Mirza

Question 10

Mirza

Answer 10

‘young, female, and black’
-myth of underachievement- girls did better in exams than black boys and white pupils. 5 groups of teachers-
1. overt racists
2. christians
3. crusaders
4. liberal chavinists
5. liberal chavinists
concl: held back by well-meaning but misguided behaviour of most teachers

Question 11

explain ethnocentric curriculm

Answer 11

school curriculm may be ethnocentric, non-white cultures may be absent from the curriculum. means may fit mainstream white middle class culture than other ethncites

Question 12

Gilborn: ethnocentric curriculm

Answer 12

sees ethnic inequality as deep rooted and so large its practically inevitable feature of education system

Question 13

examples of ethnocentric curriculm

Answer 13

• school holiday times
• histroy topics
• PE usually with western sports
• school assemblies christina focus
• literature studied in english
• european language mainly studied

Question 14

Ball

Answer 14

Criticised national curriculum for ignoring ethnic diversity and promoting an attitude of ‘little englandism’ eg history teaching post floréis whilst ignoring black and Asian history

Question 15

How does ethnocentric curriculum impact achievement ?

Answer 15

• puts at disadvantage
• might not participate/ go to school
• feel alienated

Question 16

Explaination of lack of multi- cultural teaching staff

Answer 16

Ethnic minorities are under-represented in teaching profession particularly at top of school organisational hierarchies. Offers few positive role models to pupils