Ethnicity In Education Flashcards
Language
Ethnic minority Lack of lang skill lead to underachievement
Black lang disjointed ungrammatical for Ed (ber +engl)
Attitude and values
Lack of aspiration
Socialised to be unsuccessful
Ao3 - higher aspirations than white
White working class families
Lower aspiration than ethnic minority eg uni
Teachers blame on parent support
Ethnic minority see education way up in society
Asian families
Lupton - authorities in school similar to Asian fam
Knock out effect in school
Danger overgeneralising success
Swell: farthers gangs and culture
No tough love
Black boys can’t overcome problems
Join ani school stop success seen selling white establishment
Family structure and parental support
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
Ideal pupil identity
White mc stereotype to achieve right way by natural ability and initiative
Black pupils and streaming
Have negative stereotypes put in lower sets lead to sfp and underachievement - foster
Black pupil and discipline
Gillborn and youdall -
Disiplan black faster than others for same behaviour
Misunderstanding behaviour seen as challenging authority
Stern for racial stereotypes
Labelling and teacher racism
Black/Asian far from ideal pupil
Black disruptive Asian passive
Lead sfp and underachievement
Criticism of cultural deprivation theory
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
Chinese pupils
Successful minority pupils are pathologised
Achieve sucess wrong way not by natural ability but hard work
Seen as overachievement (archer)
Pupil response and sub culture
Black girls yr11 higher a achievers in comprehensive school anger into education don’t seek teacher approval
Don’t accept negative Label/stereotypes (fuller)
Swell : variety of boys responses
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
Evaluation of labelling pupils
Cause of failure from stereotype product individual prejudice than racism
League tables lead to lower sets (gill + youdall)
Institutional racism and individual racism
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
Critical race theory
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
Ethnocentric curriculum
Reject minority influence eg institutional racism in Ed
Ignore ethnic diversity and black/Asian history
Fell inferior lead to sfp
Criticism of Gillborn
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
Black boys underachievement
Gillborn - Main cause is internal factors school can’t stop sucess
Swell - focus on external factors eg role of father’s
Ethnicity, class, gender
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
