Ethnicity In Education

Question 1

Language

Answer 1

Ethnic minority Lack of lang skill lead to underachievement
Black lang disjointed ungrammatical for Ed (ber +engl)

Question 2

Attitude and values

Answer 2

Lack of aspiration
Socialised to be unsuccessful
Ao3 - higher aspirations than white

Question 3

White working class families

Answer 3

Lower aspiration than ethnic minority eg uni
Teachers blame on parent support
Ethnic minority see education way up in society

Question 4

Asian families

Answer 4

Lupton - authorities in school similar to Asian fam
Knock out effect in school
Danger overgeneralising success

Question 5

Swell: farthers gangs and culture

Answer 5

No tough love
Black boys can’t overcome problems
Join ani school stop success seen selling white establishment

Question 6

Family structure and parental support

Answer 6

Fail to socialise kids lead to dysfunctional fam
Black mum deprived bread winner lack role model lead sfp
Driver - ignore positive role model for black girls and why they are successful

Question 7

Ideal pupil identity

Answer 7

White mc stereotype to achieve right way by natural ability and initiative

Question 8

Black pupils and streaming

Answer 8

Have negative stereotypes put in lower sets lead to sfp and underachievement - foster

Question 9

Black pupil and discipline

Answer 9

Gillborn and youdall -
Disiplan black faster than others for same behaviour
Misunderstanding behaviour seen as challenging authority
Stern for racial stereotypes

Question 10

Labelling and teacher racism

Answer 10

Black/Asian far from ideal pupil
Black disruptive Asian passive
Lead sfp and underachievement

Question 11

Criticism of cultural deprivation theory

Answer 11

Victim blaming - keddie argues MEG children are culturally different not deprived school favour white culture

Labelling - argues racist stereotypes low expectations of them result SFP underachievement

Question 12

Chinese pupils

Answer 12

Successful minority pupils are pathologised
Achieve sucess wrong way not by natural ability but hard work
Seen as overachievement (archer)

Question 13

Pupil response and sub culture

Answer 13

Black girls yr11 higher a achievers in comprehensive school anger into education don’t seek teacher approval
Don’t accept negative Label/stereotypes (fuller)

Question 14

Swell : variety of boys responses

Answer 14

Rebels - only small group of black pupils are excluded or rejected rules / goals and anti school subculture

Conformist - biggest group keen to succeed accept goals not part of subculture avoid being stereotyped by peers/teachers

Retreatist - tiny group are isolated and disconnected from school and black subculture

Innovators 2nd big group are pro education but anti school they value success not teacher approval

Question 15

Evaluation of labelling pupils

Answer 15

Cause of failure from stereotype product individual prejudice than racism
League tables lead to lower sets (gill + youdall)

Question 16

Institutional racism and individual racism

Answer 16

Institutional - discrimination built into the way of the institution e.g how school and collage operate

Individual - result from prejudice views of individuals and teachers

Question 17

Critical race theory

Answer 17

Racism ingrained into society

Locked inequity - scale of historical discrimination becomes self perpetuated

Gillborn - inequity so deep rooted and inevitable feature of education system

See education system institutionally racist e.g ethnocentric curriculum

Question 18

Ethnocentric curriculum

Answer 18

Reject minority influence eg institutional racism in Ed
Ignore ethnic diversity and black/Asian history
Fell inferior lead to sfp

Question 19

Criticism of Gillborn

Answer 19

See ethnic differences in achievement result of institutional racism and focus on success

Underachievement for MEG such as black boys

Overachievement of Indian and Chinese pupils

Question 20

Black boys underachievement

Answer 20

Gillborn - Main cause is internal factors school can’t stop sucess
Swell - focus on external factors eg role of father’s

Question 21

Ethnicity, class, gender

Answer 21

Evans - want to understand how ethnicity interact with gender and class

Connolly - black boys pushed into sport they are urachievers Aisian conformist and passive excluded from football more feminine

Can’t consider ethnicity in isolation from gender and class