ethnicity and education things to learn

Question 1

achievement gap between pupils whos first lanague isnt english and those who it is

Answer 1

only a small gap

in 2010 only 3.2 points ahead

Question 2

in 2019-2020 what was the attainment 8 score of chineese students

Answer 2

67.6 highest out of all students

Question 3

black family structure

Answer 3

moniyhan- single black mothers are more likley to be unemployed or work a low wage job which cna make black children lack a succsessfull figure in thier lifestyle that motivates them to do well

swell- lack of fatherly love

Question 4

criticism of black family strucutre

Answer 4

driver- single blakc mothers encourgae blakc students to work hard at school as they are a strong independent figure that motivates them, esepcially girls to also work hard

Question 5

material depirvation

Answer 5

palmer found that 1/2 ethnic minoirty children are in poervty compared to 1/4 of white children
les monye to pay for the hidden costs of schooling like trips tutors and textbook ssetting them behind white children who are more likley to afford it

Question 6

statistic linking exclusions and underachievement

Answer 6

1 in 5 students who have been repeatedly excluded leave school with 5 GCSEs

Question 7

criticsm of teacher labelling

Answer 7

mirza argues that teacher labelling from a racist sterotypes arent a single factor but are perpetuated by the insitioalsied racism of the whole system

for example a-c economy makes school obsessed with test results and as found by tickly et al leads to children being mor likely to be entered for lower exam tiers

Question 8

in school procresses

Answer 8

tickly et al found that from their study of 30 school sin the aim higher programme blakc studetns re more likely to be entered for lower exam tiers

gilbourne found that white pupils are 2x more likley to be selected for gifted and teleted programmes than white children

Question 9

marketsiation

Answer 9

glibourne- ledas of segregation as blakc pupils less likley to be accsepetd into high achieveing schools either due to lower achievemnt in pariamy or not being able to affrod areas with good schools

Question 10

criticsm of marketsiation

Answer 10

critical race theorists argue that if racism porduces constant underachievemtn whit are chineese pupils so talented?

Question 11

ethnocentric cirrcululm

Answer 11

gilbourne- promotes little englsnadism

corad- porteatyes blakc people in the past as inferior and so have lower self asteems

Question 12

criticm of ethnocmentic cicciculum

Answer 12

stone- dont suffer from low self asteem

swell- cant just look at in school but factor ssuch as attitude towards school at home determinign underachievement

Question 13

asian labelling

Answer 13

wright

archer- asian pupils labelled as achievig the ‘wrong way’ through hard work and not natural ability