Ethnicity and Achievment: External Factors

Question 1

What are the 5 external factors?

Answer 1

-Material Deprivation
-Cultural Deprivation
-Family Structure
-Language Barriers
-Discrimination in Wider Society

Question 2

Material Deprivation: Which ethnic minority groups tend to suffer from this?

Answer 2

White British WC, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani

Question 3

Material Deprivation: Define

Answer 3

Lack of money and resources to buy this things needed for educational success

Question 4

Material Deprivation: Examples

Answer 4

-Cannot afford a computer or internet access at home: hard to do homework
-Cannot afford to eat breakfast: difficult to concentrate in lessons

Question 5

Material Deprivation: Which ethnic minority groups don’t suffer from this?

Answer 5

Chinese and Indian

Question 6

Material Deprivation: What do MC families posses that allows them to afford the things needed for educational success

Answer 6

Economic Capital

Question 7

Material Deprivation AO3: Compensatory Education

Answer 7

Extra services introduced by the government to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve at school e.g Breakfast Clubs and FSM

Question 8

Cultural Deprivation: Which ethnic minority group does regard education as important

Answer 8

The Gyspy-Roma Community

Question 9

Cultural Deprivation: Gypsy-Roma view of education

Answer 9

-Do not value an education system run by non-gypsies
-School isn’t important because they don’t need it to achieve their goals

Question 10

Cultural Deprivation: Gypsy Roma priorities

Answer 10

-Boys: Find a manual job and earn a living
-Girls: Look good and find a husband (don’t need qualifications to be a housewife)

Question 11

Cultural Deprivation: Which ethnic minority groups see education as important

Answer 11

Chinese and Indian