Ethnicity And Achievment Flashcards
What is ethnicity
People who share common history, customs and identity
What are Chinese students more likely to achieve
A* to C grades at GCSE
What percentage of black students achieve A* to C in English and a maths
59%
Free school meals
All ethnic minorities with free school meals outperform white British with free school meals
Sewell
Black male, immediate gratification learning seen as ‘white
Chinese parents place a high value in education
Archer and Francis
Sewell (1997)
Black students raised by single parents lack love and discipline, attracted to macho and masculine goings
Murray
Afro- Caribbean, lack of male role models, struggle to socialise
Languages have little impact academically
The swan report
Noon
Sent identical letters to top UK schools with names Evan and Patel
- the replies to Evans were more helpful
National curriculum is ‘specifically British’
Troyna and Williams
‘Little Englandism’
Ball
Institutional racism
Occurs as a result of inbuilt discrimination within formal institutions
Crozier
Bangladeshi and Pakistani students feel excluded from their peers
Selection of segregation
Gilborn- marketisation of education disadvantaged ethnic minorities
Mc Robbie
70s magazines like Jackie emphasise on marriage
Rutter
Children spend so long at school they can’t make a difference between success and failure of student
Interactionism
Social process - result of human interaction
Gilborn and Youdell
Teachers had radicalised expectations- quick to discipline black pupils
- reinforces stereotypes, creates conflict
Fuller
Rejection didn’t conform to all values, valued success enough to push themselves
The colour blind
Allows racism to go un challenged
The overt racist
Black pupils are inferior - actively discriminate
The liberal
Low expectations for black pupils as they are ‘culturally deprived’
The black report 1980
Reach policy recommendations for reducing inequality
Labour 1977
Free school meals for all children
