Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ethnicity and education
- External factors
- Cultural deprivation
- Intellectual and linguistic skills
- Englemann - Language
spoken by low income
black families is
incapable of expressing
abstract ideas
- Family structure
- High rates of lone
parents in the Black
community, so boys
often associate
education with
femininity
- Parental support
- Pryce - Asian families have strong
communities and are more
resistant to racism, black
Caribbean's are less resistant and
their families offer less support
- Internal/school factors
- Teacher labelling
- Mirza
- studied group of
ambitious black girls
and found that racist
teachers held them
back. They got on with
their work to avoid
interaction with
teachers
- Sewell
- Black boys reacted
differently to stereotypes; the
majority wanted to succeed
but not be stereotyped, the
minority put emphasis on
sexual reputation and saw
school as a threat to their
manhood, they disliked white
boys
- Mac an Ghaill
- Black and Asian A
level students. They
felt negatively
labelled but did not
always live up to it
- Fuller
- Black girls who were high
achievers and channelled their
anger about labels into being high
achievers but tried to appear laid
back
- Parry
- Afro-Caribbean boys
taught by
Afro-Caribbean teachers
still underachieved, as
they didn't want to be
seen as a nerd
- Ethnocentric curriculum
- Ball 1971
- National curriculum
ignores culture and
diversity by teaching that
English is superior
- Outdated and
Chinese are the
highest achievers but
their culture is not
taught in schools
- Institutional racism
- Individual racism
- Prejudiced views of individuals
- E.g teacher not
disciplining a black
boy because she
sees him as
aggressive
- Institutional racism
- Discrimination built into the way
institutions operate
- School canteens not providing halal meat