Education T3, Ethnic Differences Flashcards
(17 cards)
How are ethnic minorities culturally deprived?
Language skills, Attitudes and values, and Family structure.
How does language deprivation of ethnic minorities affect their education?
EM parents may have language barriers and struggle to get their children into good schools. Also, children who don’t speak English at home may be held back - HOWEVER Gillborn and Mirza found this is usually the opposite with Indian pupils.
What does Moynihan say about black family structures?
Typically they are headed by lone mothers, which means that young black boys don’t get that ‘tough love’ and may become delinquents. However, this benefits young black girls as they have an independent female role model.
How are Asian families structured, and how does this impact education?
Sewell says Asian parents are supportive and teach children ‘Asian work ethic’.
What are some criticisms of Cult Dep theory for Ethnic minorities in the education system?
Driver - CD ignores the positive effects it can have on achievement, eg. independent black girls.
Keddie - EM are not culturally deprived but culturally different. They underachieve due to racism and the ethnocentric curriculum.
How are Ethnic Minorities materially deprived?
Many live in deprived areas, cultural factors can prevent certain women from working, lack of language skills or foreign qualifications may not be respected by UK employers, etc.
Who studied racism in the job market and what did they find?
Wood et al sent 3 very similar job applications to 1000 vacancies. Their names were associated to different ethnic groups. 1/9 ‘white’ got interviews VS 1/16 ‘black’.
What did Gillborn and Youdell find about teacher racism?
Teachers are much quicker to discipline black pupils due to racial stereotypes, not actual behaviour. Black pupils also tend to be put into lower streams.
What did Wright find about teachers treatment of Asian pupils?
Teachers assumed they would have a bad grasp of English and therefore left them out of group discussions.
Who studied pupil identities in ethnic minorities?
Archer
What were the 3 types of pupils Archer found?
Ideal pupil, white, m/c, achieves through natural ability.
Pathologised pupil, asian, feminine, overachiever, succeeds through hard work.
Demonised pupil, black/white, w/c, unintelligent and peer led, an underachiever.
How did pupils respond to these subcultures?
Fuller found that a group of y11 black girls were high achievers. Instead of accepting and internalising their negative labels, they channelled their anger into success, seeking the approval of exams, not teachers.
Why are Ethnic Minorities more likely to end up in unpopular or bad schools?
Systemic racism or parental language deprivation.
Who discusses the ethnocentric curriculum?
David - language, literature and music.
Ball - history. Coard - teaching about slavery and colonisation can cause black pupils to have low self esteem.
How are assessments systemically racist?
Gillborn says they are fixed to maintain the dominant culture’s superiority. eg. baseline assessments were changed to FSP’s, in which black pupils appeared to do worse. This is because the FSP’s were based on teacher’s judgements, and were now done at the end of reception, whilst baseline assessments were done before reception started.
How are ethnic minorities limited in their access to opportunities?
Gifted and Talented programme (Gillborn) - white students more than 2x more likely than black caribbean to be chosen.
Aiming High programme - was supposed to improve black students achievement, but didn’t make a difference.
What is New IQism?
Gillborn’s theory that natural intelligence and ‘potential’ don’t exist, and are just chosen by the teacher. He believes that underachievement is down to institutional racism.
