ethnicity internal Flashcards
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Fuller
Studied rejection of labels
Group of y11 girls in a London comp school, low streams yet they where high achieving due too anti-school pro-education ideals.
Mac an Ghaill
Studied Black and Asian A-level pupils, shows that labelling is not always negative
Mirza
Identified 3 types of teacher racism
-Colour Blind -Didn’t see it (didn’t pay attention to it)
-Liberal Chauvinists Try to stop it (ill informed)
-Overt Racists -racists them self’s (bias)
Sewell
Boys responses to racists stereotypes,
Rebels - Influential but a minority, opposed schools
Conformists - majority, accepted schools values
Retreatists - small minority, isolated/disconnected
Innovators - second largest group, pro-education but anti-school
Ideal Pupil Identity
White
Middle class
Masculine
identity
Normal sexuality Achieving in the right way through natural ability and talent.
Pathologized Pupil Identity
Deserving poor
Feminised identity
Asexual / repressed sexuality
Plodding conformist
Slgger who succeeds through hard work rather than natural ability.
Demonised Pupil Identity
Black or white
Working class
Hyper sexualised
Unintelligent
Peer –led
Culturally deprived
Underachiever
Gilbourn & Youdell
Teachers were quick to discipline black pupils than others for similar behaviour, see black people as anti-authority creating conflict and bias.
Foster
Teachers stereotypes of black students could
result in them being put in lower sets and there for a
self fulfilling prophecy of under achievement.
Wright
In a primary school, Teachers typically left Asian pupils out of conversations and used childish language when speaking to them creating marginalisation
Ethnocentric Curriculum
-A curriculum which reflects the culture of one ethnic group, usually the dominant culture.
-Tronyaand Bell –lack of teaching of Asian languages
Gillborn
Critical Race Theory
Sees racism so ingrained in education that is now inevitable.
Access to opportunities
Ethnic minority’s are less likely to be entered for higher tier exams
despite policies and initiatives to raise Ethnic Minority’s achievements. This is due to teacher labelling and SFP
Assessment
FSP - Sanders & Horn -Changing from a written tests to teacher
assessment led to black students underachieving.
New ‘IQ ism
eachers and Policy makers make
false assumptions about the nature of
pupils ability or potential.
Gillborn - suggests that these test only test what is currently known or learnt not what could be.
These tests are skewed to dominant Culture.
