Racism & EducatiON Flashcards
Gilborn &Youdell
Teachers have racialised expectations, pupils reacted negatively -> further conflicts due to stereotypes, not behaviour
Negative stereotypes of black ppl= lower sets
Fuller
Studied black y11 girls that’s used racism as motivation
Bourne
Schools see black boys as a threat, leading to exclusions which leads to underachievement (1 in 5 excluded pupils receive GCSEs
Osler
Black students more likely to be officially and unofficially excluded. Also more likely to be in a PRU
Foster
Teachers stereotypes of black pupils as badly behaved results in them being placed in lower sets
Wright
Teachers had ethnocentric views, assumed that Asian pupils didn’t know/bother with them and left them out of class discussion, felt generally excluded
Archer
Ideal, pathologised and demonised student
Mirza <-> bereiter & engelmann
3 types of racist teachers and pupils chose best teacher
Sewell
Rebels, conformists, retreatists, innovators
Racist teacher fault but mainly absent father
Gilborn
Stereotypes influence decisions
Moore & Davenport
selection leads to an ethnically stratified education system (ethnic minorities go to worse
secondary schools)
Coard
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
Ball
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.
Troyna & Williams
suggests that the British cirriculum gives priority to white culture and enlish language. It teaches subjects like British history, British literature and european languages.
Strand
white-black achievement gap is due to black pupils being underrepresented in higher tier exams
Bereiter & Engelmann. <->Mirza
language spoken by low-income black families is inadequate for educational success as it is ungrammatical, disjointed and incapable of expressing abstract ideas.
Moynihan
Absent father, struggling mother
Pryce
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.
Sewell. <-> Gilborn
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
Gilborn
Institutional racism produces failures of black boys
Lupton
Adult authority in Asian families is similar to school model
McCulloch
Black ppl more likely aspiring uni than whites
Driver
Ignores positive effects of ethnicity on achievement
Lawrence
Not bc of low self esteem but bc of racism
