Topic 3 - Ethnic Differences in Achievement Flashcards

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Ethnic statistics - who achieves best?

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Chinese & White Middle-Class pupils

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Ethnic statistics - who achieves worst?

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Black Caribbean & Gypsy Roma

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Linguistic skills - External [2]

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Bereiter and Engelmann - Black Caribbean language impractical and disjointed, means they cannot convey abstract ideas
- English may not be first language used in some Asian households- PSI study found lack of fluency significant problem

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Family Structure - External

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Moynihan found many Black Caribbean lone-parent families - lack of male role model.

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Attitudes and values - External [1]

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Some sociologists argue that some black pupils have a fatalistic outlook on life - want immediate gratification

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Material deprivation - External [1]

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Victims of racism in wider society -> discrimination at work -> may be in low paid jobs or unemployed -> impacts upon children’s educational opportunities

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Internal factors - Labelling [3]

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Gillborn and Youdell - Black pupils were more likely than others to be punished for the same behaviour as white pupils.
Fuller - High achieving black girls rejected teacher’s stereotypes
Mirza - black girls’ strategies for dealing with teacher racism still disadvantaged them - e.g. not asking for help

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Asian pupils - Labelling [1]

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Wright - found Asian primary school pupils were stereotyped

- Teachers used simple language - assumed they would speak poor English

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Pupil Subcultures - Internal

Sewell - black boys developed responses to racist teacher labelling [4]

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Conformists: keen to succeed, accepted the school’s goals.
Innovators: pro-education, but anti-school. Valued success, but not teacher’s approval.
Retreatists: disconnected from the school and black subcultures outside of it.
Rebels: rejected the school’s goals, and conformed to the stereotype of the ‘black macho lad’.

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Ethnocentric Curriculum [Troyna & Williams] - Internal

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English curriculum priorities white culture + English holidays + language.
Ball: ‘little Englandism’

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Evaluation of ethnic differences [2]

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  • Class and gender also impact achievement, although w/c Chinese still overachieve
  • Some research is dated & based on crude stereotypes e.g. linguistic skills
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