Ethnicity DEA Flashcards
What are the out of school factors that some ethnic groups outperform others?
Cultural deprivation- family structure, attitudes and values, linguistic skills and racism in wider society
Material deprivation
Statistics on material deprivation
Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are 3x more likely than whites to be the poorest 5% of the population and 3x as likely to be homeless
Unemployment is 3x higher for Afro Caribbean’s, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis than it is for white people
Evaluation of material deprivation
Government have introduced policies to tackle the problem e.g FSM, bursaries
Murray
Male African Caribbean underachievement is caused by the lack of male parental role models in this community
Strand
There is a strong emphasis on self improvement in Indian and Chinese culture
Chua
Chinese parents are tiger parents who can’t accept failure
Berieter and Engelmann
Language spoken by low income black families is inadequate for education success
Wood
Only one in 16 EMs applications were offered an interview, against one in 9 white applicants
What are in school factors for differences in achievement of ethnic groups?
Racialised expectations, subcultures, institutionalised racism, selection and segregation
Evaluation of linguistic skills
Gillborn and Mizra say Indian pupils have very high attainment so having English as a second language is not a major barrier.
Gillborn and Youdell
Teachers have expectations that black pupils will generally present disciplinary problems and they therefore tended to feel that control and punishment had to be given higher priority than academic concerns.
Most black pupils felt they were disadvantaged.
Evaluation for Gillborn and Youdell
Fullers research on black girls. Self negating prophecy.
Wright
South asain girls received less attention from teachers
Teachers would mispronounce students names.
Sewell
Notes how black boys respond to schooling can affect achievement
4 responses to negative labelling:
Rebels- rejected goals and rules of the school and formed anti school ‘black macho lads’
Conformists- keen to succeed and accepted the schools goals
Retreatists- disconnected with both the school and black subcultures
Innovators- pro education but anti school
Hatcher
schools placed a low priority on dealing with race issues and failed to adequately tackle instances of racial bullying
Evaluation of Hatcher
Smith and Tomlinson- found schools to be tolerant of all ethnic groups
2000 Ofsted report
Black students treated more harshly than white students
Teachers have low expectations about the motivation, ability and achievement of black pupils
Mitsos
education system expects black students to fail, so they are often placed into lower streams which leads to the self fulfilling prophecy
What is cream skimming?
Chinese and Indian students selected into the most desirable schools
