P1 Education - Internal Factors and Achievement (Ethnicity)

Question 1

What do interactionists believe about labelling and teacher racism?

Answer 1

Interactionists focus on the different labels teachers give to ethnic minority children from different backgrounds
Black and Asain = far from ideal pupil
Black = disruptive
Asain = passive

Question 2

What do Gillborn and Youdell about black pupils and discipline?

Answer 2

Teachers are quicker to discipline black students than others for the same behaviour. They could misinterpret behaviour as threatening or a challenge to authority (racial stereotypes)

Question 3

What does Peter Foster say about black pupils and streaming?

Answer 3

Teacher stereotypes about bad behaviour from black pupils lower streams therefore underachievement.

Negative stereotypes about black pupils ability mean they are more likely to be placed in the bottom streams

Question 4

What did Cecile Wright say Asian pupils?

Answer 4

Multi ethnic primary schools and Asian pupils can also experience racism. Despite the schools apparent commitment to equal opportunities ethnocentric views that white British culture and standards are superior.

Question 5

What did Louise Archer say about pupil identities?

Answer 5

Teachers dominant view defines ethnic minority pupil identifies as lacking the favoured identity of the ideal pupil. Archer describes how the dominant discourse constructs three different pupil identities:
1. The ideal pupil identity
2. The pathologized pupil identity
3. The demised pupil identity

Question 6

What did Archer say about Asian pupils?

Answer 6

Archer found that Asian girls are stereotyped as passive and docile.

Question 7

What did Archer say about black pupils?

Answer 7

Archer argued they are demised as loud, challenging, excessively sexual and from un-aspirational home cultures

Question 8

What is said about Chinese pupils?

Answer 8

Even those ethnic minority perform successfully can be pathologized in their behaviours and seen as abnormal, even whilst teachers praised them for their academic success.

Chinese students are seen as having achieved success in the wrong way - through hard work and passive conformism rather than natural ability (never can be the ideal pupil).

Question 9

What are Mirza’s failed strategies to avoid racism?

Answer 9

She found that racist teachers discouraged black pupils from being ambitious through the kind of advice they gave them about careers and option choices. - For example, teachers discouraged them from aspiring to professional careers.
- A large majority of teachers in the study held racist attitudes

Question 10

What are the three main types of teacher racism that Mirza identified?

Answer 10

1. The colour blind - teachers who believe all pupils are equal but in practice allow racism to go unchallenged
2. The liberal chauvinists - teachers who believe black pupils are culturally deprived and who have low expectations of them.
3. The overt racism - teachers who believe blacks are inferior and actively discriminate against them.