[ETHNICITY] external factors affecting achievement + trends

Question 1

What are the ethnicity trends with achievement

Answer 1

South asian- indian and chinese students achieve the highest grades in GCSE
Black african and Black carribean students achieve the lowest grades at GCSE

Question 2

what are the external factors affecting the achievement within ethnicity?

Answer 2

cultural factors- language [Bereiter & Englemann], Family structure [Murray, Sewell]
Material factors- [Palmer]
Racism in wider society- [Rex]

Question 3

how does family structure affect achievement?

Answer 3

Murray- black caribbean familes are headed by females so children don’t have a male role model which leads to the inadequate socialisation for some minorities due to the lack of disapline so they look for a role model in other areas.

Question 3

how does language affect achievement?

Answer 3

Bereiter+ Englesmann-
Families who’s first language isn’t English is inadequate for educational success in the uk, due to being ungrammatical, disjointed and uncaple of expressing abstract ideas

Question 4

how does material deprivation affect achievement?

Answer 4

1/2 of ethnic minority children are more likely to live in low income homes and are 2x to be unemployed. so live in economically depressed areas which have high unemployment rates.

Question 5

how does racism in wider society affect achievement?

Answer 5

Rex- racism leads to social exclusion which leads to poverty getting worse such as housing qualities due to living in low-income areas with poor quality housing.