Racism & EducatiON

Question 1

Gilborn &Youdell

Answer 1

Teachers have racialised expectations, pupils reacted negatively -> further conflicts due to stereotypes, not behaviour
Negative stereotypes of black ppl= lower sets

Question 2

Fuller

Answer 2

Studied black y11 girls that’s used racism as motivation

Question 3

Bourne

Answer 3

Schools see black boys as a threat, leading to exclusions which leads to underachievement (1 in 5 excluded pupils receive GCSEs

Question 4

Osler

Answer 4

Black students more likely to be officially and unofficially excluded. Also more likely to be in a PRU

Question 5

Foster

Answer 5

Teachers stereotypes of black pupils as badly behaved results in them being placed in lower sets

Question 6

Wright

Answer 6

Teachers had ethnocentric views, assumed that Asian pupils didn’t know/bother with them and left them out of class discussion, felt generally excluded

Question 7

Archer

Answer 7

Ideal, pathologised and demonised student

Question 8

Mirza <-> bereiter & engelmann

Answer 8

3 types of racist teachers and pupils chose best teacher

Question 9

Sewell

Answer 9

Rebels, conformists, retreatists, innovators

Racist teacher fault but mainly absent father

Question 10

Gilborn

Answer 10

Stereotypes influence decisions

Question 11

Moore & Davenport

Answer 11

selection leads to an ethnically stratified education system (ethnic minorities go to worse
secondary schools)

Question 12

Coard

Answer 12

Curriculum produces underachievement:In History, British may be presented as bringing civilisation to the “primitive” people they colonised. This portrays black people are inferior, undermining black children’s self-esteem

Question 13

Ball

Answer 13

criticises the National Curriculum for ignoring ethnic diversity and for promoting an attitude of ‘little Englandism’. For example, the history curriculum tries to recreate a ‘mythical age of empire and past glories’, while ignoring the history of black and Asian people.

Question 14

Troyna & Williams

Answer 14

suggests that the British cirriculum gives priority to white culture and enlish language. It teaches subjects like British history, British literature and european languages.

Question 15

Strand

Answer 15

white-black achievement gap is due to black pupils being underrepresented in higher tier exams

Question 16

Bereiter & Engelmann. <->Mirza

Answer 16

language spoken by low-income black families is inadequate for educational success as it is ungrammatical, disjointed and incapable of expressing abstract ideas.

Question 17

Moynihan

Answer 17

Absent father, struggling mother

Question 18

Pryce

Answer 18

are higher achievers because their culture
is more resistant to racism and gives them a greater sense of self-worth.

y contrast Asian family structures, languages and religions were not destroyed by colonial rule.

Question 19

Sewell. <-> Gilborn

Answer 19

Argues that it is not the absence of fathers as role models that leads to black boys underachieving. Instead, lack of love respect firm fair discipline (peer pressure)

Gilborn it’s institutional racism

Question 20

Gilborn

Answer 20

Institutional racism produces failures of black boys

Question 21

Lupton

Answer 21

Adult authority in Asian families is similar to school model

Question 22

McCulloch

Answer 22

Black ppl more likely aspiring uni than whites

Question 23

Driver

Answer 23

Ignores positive effects of ethnicity on achievement

Question 24

Lawrence

Answer 24

Not bc of low self esteem but bc of racism

Question 25

Keddie

Answer 25

Victim blaming explanation

Question 26

Palmer

Answer 26

We more likely to be unemployed or homeless and earn less

Question 27

Modood

Answer 27

Low income fams did less well but effects were less for us than for yts

Question 28

John Rex

Answer 28

Racism worsens poverty and forced us into substandard accommodation

Question 29

Mason

Answer 29

Discrimination is embedded in british history

Question 30

Wood et al

Answer 30

1/16 us get the job 1/9 yts

Question 31

Tikly Et al (internal)

Answer 31

Black students more likely foundation tiers, self fulfilling prophecies