Ethnicity (internal factors) Flashcards
What did Gillbourn and Yodell argue about labelling?
Teachers discipline black pupils more than other for the same behaviour
They have racialised expectations
Black pupils felt teachers underestimated their ability and picked on them
Racial stereotypes
What did Bourne argue?
Schools see black boys as a threat
Leading to exclusion which leads to underachievement
1/5 excluded pupils receive GCSES)
What did Osler argue?
Black students more likely to be officially and unofficial excluded.
What does Foster argue?
Teacher stereotypes of black pupils as badly behaved result in them being placed in lower sets
(link to A-C economy)
What was Wrights case study?
Teachers held ethnocentric views
Resulting in excluding asian pupils from class discussion and ‘talked down’ to them
Use more simplistic, childish language
Assumed poor English
What does Archer argue?
Teachers discourse defined ethnic minority pupils identities as lack the identity of the ideal pupil
What is the ideal pupil identity?
White
Middle class
Masculinised
What is the pathologies pupil identity?
Asian
Deserving poor
Feminised
What is the demonised pupil identity?
Black or white
Working class
Unintelligent
Underachiever
What is argued about Chinese pupils and identities?
Minority pupils who are successful can never meet the ideal pupil stereotype
Teachers have a ‘negative positive’ stereotype of Chinese pupils
Even success of ethnic minorities would be seen as overachievement
What did Fuller study?
Group if black girls in YR11
London comprehensive school
High achievers and therefore ‘untypical’
Girls channeled in their anger about their labels into pursuing educational success
Did not seek approval from teachers as regard them as racist and were friends with black girls from lower streams
Conformed only as far as the schoolwork was concerned and relied only on themselves for success
Able to maintain a positive self image by relying on their own efforts rather than accepting their negative labels
What did Mirza argue the three types of teacher racism were?
Colour blind
Liberal chauvinists
Overt racists
What is a colour blind teacher?
Teachers who believe all pupils are equal but in practice allow racisms to go unchallenged.
What is the liberal chauvinist teacher?
Teachers who believe black pupils are culturally deprived and who have low expectations of them.
Who are the overt racists?
Teachers who believe blacks are inferior and actively discriminate against them.
What does Sewell are about the response to schooling of boys?
The rebels
The conformists
The retreatists
The innovators
How can labelling be criticised as deterministic?
Assumes once pupils are labelled they automatically fall victim to self fulfilling prophecy and fail
Many pupils however devise strategies to avoid teacher racisms, these too can limit their opportunities
What is another criticism of the labelling theory?
Seeing stereotypes as simply product of individual teachers prejudices rather than of racism in a way that the education system as a whole operates.
