Ethnicity-Internal Factors

Question 1

LABELLING

What is labelling?

Answer 1

Labelling is the process of attaching a meaning or definition to an individual or a group. (Stereotypes)

Question 2

What do negative labels lead to?

Answer 2

The self fulfilling prophecy

•pupils conform to the label they have been given and act accordingly.

Question 3

Reflecting Labels is called the self negating prophecy.
Who looked into this?
And what did they do?

Answer 3

Gillbour
• spent two years studying an inner-city comprehensive school gathering data from classroom observations and interviewing teachers and students.
• he found that teachers were quick to discipline black students because they saw them as a threat.
• often misinterpreted the behaviour of African Caribbean students as threatening labels.

Question 4

PUPILS RESPONSES AND SUBCULTURES.

What did Sewell examine?

Answer 4

• he examines the responses and strategies black people adopt to cope with racism.

Question 5

What did Sewell find?

Answer 5

• he found that teachers had a stereotype of “black machismo” which sees all Blacks as rebellious, anti-authority and anti-school

Question 6

What were sewell’s responses to racial stereotyping?

Answer 6

• Rebels-small-most influential
• conformists-largest-keen to succeed
• retreatists-tiny-disconnected
• innovators-second largest-pro education but anti-school

Question 7

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

what does this mean?

Answer 7

• discriminations that is built up into the way institutions such as schools and colleges operate.

Question 8

How can institutional racism manifest itself?

Answer 8

1• ethnocentric curriculum
2• School give low priority to race issues
3• they failed to deal with pupils racist behaviour