Ethnicity And Educational Achievement

Question 1

What are the main external factors affecting ethnic differences in achievement?

Answer 1

Cultural deprivation, material deprivation and class, and racism in wider society

Question 2

How does cultrural deprivation affect ethnic differences within education?

Answer 2

Cultural deprivation theorists claim that the under achievement of some ethnic groups is caused by inadequate socialisation in the home:
- intellectual and language skills
-attitudes, values and family structure

Question 3

How does intellectual and language skills affect ethnic differences within education?

Question 4

How does attitudes, values and fmaily structure affect ethnic differences within education?

Answer 4

-Fatalism and immediate gratification: cultrual deprivation theorists claim that the subcultre in which some Black children are socailsed is fatalistic and focused on immediate gratfication, resulting in a lack of motivation to succeed.