ethnicity and achievement - internal

Question 1

researcher for teacher labelling afro carribean - what did she say

Answer 1

wright - ac pupils are assumed to lack english skills for example and are left out of classroom discussions

Question 2

researcher for teacher labelling year 11 black girls - what did she say

Answer 2

fuller - found evidence of negative stereotyping of year 11 black girls however found little evidence of self-fulfilling prophecy effect. rejected labelling instead using it as motivater for educational success

Question 3

researcher for centre assessed grades- what was found

Answer 3

FFT education data lab - there was initial concern BAME students would be disadvantaged due to labelling however there was no evidence of this and they identified a slight narrowing of the gap

Question 4

researcher for streaming and what did she say

Answer 4

wright - ac pupils placed in bottom sets, then go onto resist school and develop anti school subcultures

Question 5

researcher for ethnocentric curriculum (subjects)and what did he say

Answer 5

coard - curriculum biased towards white european culture. priority to english lit, european history, european languages, christianity, westernised unifroms etc.
eval: indian and chinese students have the highest average grades despite the curriculum

Question 6

researcher for ethnocentric curriculum(linguistics) what did he say

Answer 6

Baker Bell - classrooms can operate as a cultural and linguistic battleground because teachers belittle black students for using language deemed incompatible with literary conventions expected in academic settings

Question 7

researcher for educational triage and marketisation - what did they say

Answer 7

gillborn and youdell - black pupils classified as hopeless cases and lacking ability producing self fulfilling prophecy and failure

Question 8

researcher for ethnic segregation in educational triage and marketisation - what did they say

Answer 8

moore and davenport - selection procedures can lead to ethnic segregation in the usa - minority pupils failing in getting into better secondary schools due to discrimination as application processes are more difficult for non english speaking parents - primary school reports were also used to screen out language difficulties

Question 9

weakness - high achieventment of indians and chinese pupils

Answer 9

according to heaton and laurence racism in schools cannot be a complete explanation - indian and chinese students, and also certain ethnicities in africa such as nigerians perform well educationally. many schools have adopted multi-cultural and or anti-racist policies to reduce racism in school

Question 10

weakness - black students subcultures

Answer 10

sewell rejects that black pupils engage in anti school subcultures due to streaming or labelling and suggests their lack of interest in school work stems from concerns in masculinity, as for rebels hard work was associated with being effeminate