Internal Factors Labelling Flashcards
What did Gilborn and Mirza find?
Black children with the highest achievers to enter to primary school, yeah when it came to GCSE, they had the worst results of any ethnic group
How does this criticise cultural deprivation theorists?
If a group can begin the compulsory schooling as high achievers and get finished as lower achievers this challenges the assumptions and raises questions about internal factors in school
What did Gilborn and Youdell find about disciplining in schools?
Teachers were quick to discipline black peoples for the same behaviour due to ‘radicalised expectations’ such as challenging authority
What did Bourne find?
Black boys were seen as a threat to school and were label negatively leading to exclusion
What did Osler find?
In addition to official exclusions black peoples appearing more likely to suffer and recorded official exclusions ‘ internal exclusions’.
What did foster found?
Teachers stereotyping black peoples as badly behaved could result in them being placed in lowest sets than other pupils of similar abilities
What are the three people identities of archer?
The ideal pupil identity
The pathologised pupil identity
The demonised people identity
Why are minority pupils who perform successfully seen as abnormal
Chinese students were seen as having achieves success in the wrong way through hard work passive conformism rather than natural individual ability
What is fullers study find about the girls ?
A group of year 11 black girls in a London school who were higher achievers. Instead of accepting negative stereotypes the girls channel that anger into pursuit of educational success.
What was unusual about the girls achievement?
They did not seek approval of the teachers who they regarded and they do not limit their choice of friends to academic achievers
What two points does the study highlight?
Pupils may still succeed even when they refuse to come negative labelling doesn’t always lead to failure
What are the three types of teacher racism identified by Mirza?
Colour blind- Believe all pupils are equal but allow racism to go on unchallenged
Liberal chauvinist- believe black pupils are culturally deprived and have low expectation
Over racists - believe black people are inferior and activity discriminate against them
What are the four groups of black boys, by Sewell
The rebels
the conformist
the retreatists
the innovators
Who are the rebels?
Most influential group often excluded from school conforming to the stereotype of anti-school.
Who are the conformist?
The largest group and keen to succeed anxious to avoid being stereotypes
