Exams: Ethnicity And differential achievement Flashcards
Trends
African- Caribbean student- in 2014 47% african-Caribbean students achieved 5 + a*- c GCSE’S compared with the national average of 56%
Black male students are the group most likely to be excluded from school.
Chinese and Indian students - 74.4% of Chinese and 72.9% of Indian students attained 5+ a* - c GCSEs
Gypsy/Roma are the lowest achievement in terms of GCSEs - 8.2% achieved at least a*-c GCSE’s.
Girls in all ethnic groups do better than boys.
Material deprivation (external )
Ethnic minorities in the uk are more likely to be in poverty because they are more likely to be unemployed or in low-paid jobs
More likely to live in poor housing in economically depressed ares
Guy Palmer (external)
Nearly half of ethnic-minority children live in low-income families compared with a quarter of white children
The equality and human rights commission
White British, Bangladeshi and african- Caribbean boys who qualify for FSM are half as likely than other groups to get good GCSE results.
Evaluation of material deprivation
Children from Indian and Bangladeshi origin suffer higher than average levels of poverty but do better than average in education
Archer and Francis (external)
Chinese parents see education as a ‘family project’ and have high expectations of their children
Sewell
African- Caribbean boys brought up by single mums lack the discipline provided by fathers and may be attracted by gang culture
And in school teachers felt threatened by their physical prowess.
Lupton
Asian children are well-behaved at school because their parents expect children to be respectful towards adults.
Evaluation : Labov
Challenges verbal deprivation and says that black children do not have inferior mothers, language or experience. Teachers are to Blair because they fail to understand that black inner-city is different and make little attempt to understand the language
Bereiter and Engelmann
Black children suffer from verbal deprivation- children from lower class black American families are unable to use complex vocabulary or engage in abstract thought.
Evaluation : burgess
Ethnic minority teenagers consistently demonstrated higher educational aspirations than white students.
Labelling of Asian students
Gillborn argues that Chinese and Indian students are labelled as ‘ideal students’ because of their positive attitude towards schools .
Wright found that some teachers openly labelled Asian culture as inferior to British culture
Students responses and identities
Tony sewell = despite teacher stereotyping, most black boys have no problem at school
However, black boys may form anti-school subcultures with a desire to be disprutive.
Staffing : Sewell
A lack of positive ethnic minority role models is the main cause of underachievement of black boys
17% of students in the uk are black, Asian and minority backgrounds but only 7% of teachers are.
Gilborn and Youdell (2007)
Black Caribbean children are over represented in lower sets and talk of how those in lower sets get “written off” because they have no hope of achieving A-Cs
