Inside factor - Labelling & Insitutional racism

Question 1

Gillborn

Answer 1

UK education system is ‘institutionally racist‘, teachers’ racist assumptions led them to believe that black males create trouble and see this behaviour is challenging
Teachers confront this behaviour, this would build resentment and escalate problems.
Disproportionate amounts of black students are not entered into higher tiers - lead to lower tiers meaning lower achievement
Institutional racism and in-school factors are to blame for the underachievement of Black Caribbean boys.
White pupils committing the same act, would receive less serious punishments.

Question 2

Jasper

Answer 2

Agrees with Gillborn.
Claims schools are ‘institutionally racist’ claims that a self-fulfilling prophecy occurs where black male students live down to negative labels that are given by teachers.
Curriculum needs to be adapted to make it more relevant - e.g. rewards the ‘arts’; as well as academia.

Question 3

Crozier

Answer 3

Pakistani pupils ‘keep to themselves’ in their own words they are often made to feel excluded and ‘different’ at schools
They experienced:
anxieties about their safety
Racist abuse was a lived experience of their schooling
Careers advisors at school believe south asian girls were bound by tradition
Not feeling assemblies were relevant
Therefore lead them to underachieve in education as a result.

Question 4

Mirza

Answer 4

mixed -methods ethnography, interactionist stance.
General black african and caribbean girls are ambitious, determined to succeed and have higher status aspirations.
Separated teachers into different categories:
Overt racists
Chrisitians
The Crusaders
Black Teachers
Liberal Chauvinists
Girls therefore not to be identified with their teachers or school, partly due to open racism of minority teachers.
Often unhelpful support offered by many teachers in response to the girl’s ethnicity.

Question 5

Mac an Ghail

Answer 5

Two ethnographic studies.
First study, relations between white teachers and two groups of male students with anti-school values - “Asian Warriors” and “African Caribbean Rasta Heads”.
For the “Rasta Heads” racism - not the attitudes of the boys - was the cause of their underachievement.
In-depth insight of black youths systemically experience education in a different way to white pupils due to institutional racism and the ethnocentric curriculum.