ethnicity external factors Flashcards
who are the highest achievers?
Indian and Chinese students
who are the lowest attainers?
black Caribbean, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Roma-Gypsy, Irish Traveller
Berstein and Engelmann
language codes. they consider the language spoken for low income black families as inadequate for education
Gillborn and Mirza
Indian pupils do very well despite not having English as their home language.
What do cultural deprivation theorists say about attitudes and values?
black children are often socialised to have a fatalistic attitude leading to a lack of motivation and failure
Moynihan
many black families are headed by a lone mother :- children are deprived of adequate care because she struggles financially in absence of male breadwinner.
sees cultural deprivation as a cycle.
criticism of Moynihan
problematic
Basit - asian families
indian and pakistani families have a culture of promoting educational capital to obtain social mobility
Bhatti
parents were more supportive of children’s education and had high levels of interest.
Francis - chinese families
high value placed on education by both parents and children regardless of social class
Modood
parental cultural capital from previous occupations passed onto children
Sewell - black families
lone parent families - 24% of black children from lone parent families vs 19% mixed and 10% white
greater support network of extended family and friends that promote educational achievement
Murray
higher rates of single parent black families lead to more black children being poorly socialised
Material deprivation and poverty
- ethnic minorities are more likely to live in deprived houses
- 2/5 ethnic minorities live in pov (2013)
- EM experience higher levels of unemployment
- they experience problems similar to W/C individuals
- racism and institutional racism occurs
Mirza
class has 5x the effect of ethnicity
Mirza and class
- many live in economically deprived areas :- unemployment and low wages
- some women get discouraged from working
- lack of lang skills
- foreign qualifications
- racial discrimination
criticism - Driver
we ignore the positive effects of ethnicity and achievement
Keddie
cultural deprivation is victim blaming. she argues that EM children are culturally different not deprived. they underachieve bc of ethnocentrism
