Ethnicity and Education

Question 1

What is the average attainment 8 score of white British pupils?

Answer 1

46.2

Question 2

What is the average attainment 8 score of black carribean pupils?

Answer 2

39.4

Question 3

What is the average attainment 8 score of Chinese pupils?

Answer 3

64.3

Question 4

What are the 2 outside factors of ethnicity and education?

Answer 4

1. Cultural factors such as parenting style and family structure create a difference in attainment of ethnic minority groups
2. Material deprivation highlights the financial inequalities for some ethnic minority students in education

Question 5

What is tiger parenting?

Answer 5

A form of strict or demand parenting. Tiger parenting push and pressure children to attain high levels of academic achievement or success in high status extracurricular activities such as music

Question 6

What does Sewell’s triple quandary theory argue in terms of ‘cultural factors such as parenting style and family structure create a difference in attainment of ethnic minority groups’

Answer 6

Quality of life - many black carribean boys come from families in which the father is absent. The absence of a male role model in their lives means that boundaries are not set for disciplined behaviour

Question 7

What is AO3 for the argument ‘cultural factors such as parenting style and family structure create a difference in attainment of ethnic minority groups?

Answer 7

The main criticism of these theories is that they place the blame on individuals and families rather than recognising the structural inequalities that exist in society for particular social groups, such as institutional racism (Macpherson)

Question 8

Who argues that material deprivation highlights the financial inequalities for some ethnic minority students in education?

Answer 8

Flaherty

Question 9

What does Flaherty suggest?

Answer 9

That some ethnic minorities are more likely to face material deprivation and live in poverty:
- Pakistani and Bangladeshi groups are 3X more likely than whites to be in poverty

Question 10

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘material deprivation highlights the financial inequalities for some ethnic minority students in education’ ?

Answer 10

DfE stars showing that it is actually white student in receipt of FSM that are the lowest performing group, suggesting that cultural deprivation may be the more significant factor

Question 11

What are the 3 inside factors of ethnicity and education?

Answer 11

1. Schools and teachers have been accused of being institutionally racist and limiting the attainment of some minority ethnic groups
2. Interactionists argue that ethnic minority groups are often labelled differently by reacher which can impact on their attainment in education
3. The formal curriculum within the UK education system has been accused of being ethnocentric and marginalising some groups

Question 12

Who argues that schools and teachers show institutional racism and limit the attainment of some minority ethnic groups?

Answer 12

David Gillborn

Zahra Bei

Question 13

Who argues that some ethnic minority groups are often labelled differently by teachers which can impact on their attainment in education?

Answer 13

Basit

Question 14

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘ethnic minority groups are often labelled differently by teachers which can impact on their attainment in education’ ?

Answer 14

Fuller

Question 15

Who argues that ‘the formal curriculum within the UK education system has been accused of being ethnocentric and marginalising some groups

Answer 15

Tikly et al

Demie and McLean