Racism Flashcards
What did Troyna and Williams argue?
We need to go beyond just teacher racism and look at the education system.
What is the critical race theory?
Racism is an ingrained feature of society
Institutional racism is so deep rooted and so large that it is a practically inevitable feature of the education system
What does Gillborn argue about marketisation and selection?
Selection allows stereotypes to influence decisions on admissions
What do Moore and Davenport argue about marketisation and selection?
Selection leads to ethnically stratified education system
What did the commission for racial equality find?
EM children more likely to end up in unpopular schools
What does Coard argue about the ethnocentric curriculum?
Curriculum produces underachievement
British may be presented as brining civilisation to the primitive people they colonised.
Portraying black people as inferior, undermining black children’s self esteem.
How does Ball criticise the national curriculum?
Ignores ethnic diversity and promotes an attitude of ‘little englandism’
History curriculum tried to recreate and mystical age of empire and past glories while ignoring the history of black and asian people.
What does Gillbourn argue about assessment?
The ‘assessment game’ is rigged so to validate the dominant culture superiority.
Black pupils now appear to be doing worse than white pupils.
In one local authority
Black children in 2000 had been highest achievers on entry to school (20% above average)
2003 the new FSP had black children ranked lower than whites
Why were black children ranked lower than whites in Gillbourns study?
The FSP is based on teachers judgements whereas baseline assessments often used written tests as well
Changed in timing - FSP is completed at the end of reception year baseline is done the start of primary school
What is the gifted and talented programme?
Meant to benefit bright pupils from ethnic minority groups
White students over 2x more likely lobe identified as gifted compared to black Caribbean (Gillbourn)
What are exam tiers according to Tikly et al?
Black students more likely than white students to be entered for foundation GCSES
Limiting them to a grade C and it is suggested that teachers low expectations of black students led to a self fulfilling prophecy
What did Strand argue?
White Black achievement gap is due to black pupils being underrepresented in higher tier exams
What is the new IQism (Gillborn)?
Teachers make false assumptions
Opportunities are based heavily on teacher assessments of pupils ability
Teachers see potential as fixed and use IQ tests to steam pupils
There is no genuine measure of potential.
Black students in lower sets based on racialised expectations that black pupils would pose more discipline problems.
