Ethnicity And Achievment Flashcards
(13 cards)
Language - Modood
Argued Bangladeshi and Pakistani students tend to lack. Fluency in English. This may be a problem at school, especially when English is not spoken at home
Language- Labov
Bangladeshi children seem to suffer the worst in terms of fluency in English
Parental support - Driver and Ballard
South Asian parents have high aspirations for their children and push them to work hard and be successful
Parental support - Pryce
Found 59% of black-Caribbean children live in lone-parent families compared with 22% of white. He argues it means black boys lack a male role model
Parental support - Sewell
Argued one reason for black Afro-Carribeans’ underperformance is absent fathers, he argues it makes it harder to adopt the demands of school
Peer group culture - Sewel
Pressure is placed on individuals to be anti-school, status is gained by being hyper-masculine, unruly behaviour and being antagonistic
Material factors - Smith and Noble
Look at the impacts of material deprivation/poverty. Poor housing leads to higher rates of sickness, poor diet leads to lack of concentration in lessons
Material factors - Forsyth and Furlong
Found the most significant factor that deters the working class from university is the cost of
Institutional racism - Gillborn
Argues black males are seen as a threat and disruptive, they are 3x more likely to be excluded and allocated into bottom set
Institutional racism - Ball and Gillborn
Middle class parents can guide their children through racist setting and streaming, they can use their cultural capital
Institutional racism - Pilkington
Found evidence of racially discriminatory practices in the allocation of pupils to sets
Ethnocentric curriculum - Coard
The curriculum is ethnocentric, it ignores cultural and ethnic diversity and promotes little englandisms and the ‘great’ British empire
Ethnocentric curriculum - Tikly et al
They found Afro-Caribbean’s resent their invisibility in the curriculum and being reduced to a study of slavery
