Labelling & Teacher Racism - Gillborn & Youdell (2000)

Question 1

what did G&Y find in their study?

Answer 1

• teachers were more likely to have negative expectations of black pupils
  
  • racialised stereotyping
• expected them to present more discipline problems, so were quicker to discipline them —> led to confrontation —> black students getting into more trouble

Question 2

what did the black students think the teachers were doing? what do G&Y think of this?

Answer 2

• claimed teachers ‘picked’ on them
• G&Y believe that teachers were far less tolerant of black pupils which could explain why black pupils have the highest exclusion rate

Question 3

Eval for G&Y research (1)

Answer 3

• fails to acknowledge less tolerance in society for discrimination and better teacher-training may mean the problems are no longer as prevalent as they once were in 2000

Question 4

Eval regarding why exclusion rate for Black-Caribbean boys is significantly higher than for Black-African boys (2)

Answer 4

• unclear why teachers have racialised expectations of black boys but not other ethnic minority groups
• unclear why teachers would differentiate between black pupils in this way (referring to exclusion rates)