[ETHNICTY] internal factors affecting achievement?

Question 1

what are the internal factors affecting achievement?

Answer 1

Teacher labelling- Wright
Pupil subculture- Sewell
Ethnocentric curriculum

Question 2

how does teacher labelling affect students achievement?

Answer 2

teachers hold ethnocentric views on students from different ethnicities and this affects how they teach these students e.g learning out of class discussions and being spoken to childishly

Question 3

how does pupil subculture affect achievement?

Answer 3

Sewell- Hypermasculinity creates students to become ‘rebels’ and adopt an antischool subculture due to them rejecting education to embrasee hypermasculinity as they want symbolic capital and to develop nike identies [Archer]

Question 4

how does an ethnocentric curriculum affect achievement?

Answer 4

Languages taught in schools are focused most on European languages even though mandarin is the most spoken language in the world. This lack of acknowledging other languages can produce underachievement and create low self-esteem due to the ethnocentric curriculum creating a habitus nature which they do not feel part of.