Ethnicity Studies Flashcards
(12 cards)
Gillbourn and Youdell
found black students labelled as disruptive and placed in lower sets regardless of actual ability
teachers have racialised stereotypes which leads to conflict and underachievement.
teachers have racialised expectations and are quicker to disipline black students as their behaviour is interpretated as aggressive or challenging.
Mirza
found teachers had steretypically low expectations on black girls and so didn’t push them and put them in lower tier exams.
led to them pretending to not care about school
Connolly
schools had high expectations on South Asian Boys. Found that if they were deviant, it was seen as immiture and not intentional.
they weren’t punished as badly as Black British Boys were.
Francis and Archer
High value is placed on education by Chinese parents and the high aspirations are passed from parent to child.
Coard
Schools are ethnocentric and made black students feel inferior.
Curriculum ignores black history and culture so lowers self-esteem
Wright
Found teachers stereotyped Asian Girls as passive or having languge difficulties which lead to marginalisation in classrooms.
Teachers assumed they had less of an understanding of English
Connor et al
y13 students who were of an ethnic minority had stronger aspirations to go onto higher education than white students.
Especially black african students
Sewell
Black Caribbean boys experience peer pressure to adapt to the norms of ‘urban’ or ‘street’ culture.
Teachers then stereotype them as ‘rebellious’
Osler
Black pupils recieve more unofficial exclusions
e.g. getting sent out of class
Mac an Ghaill
Students who believed teachers labelled them negatively didn’t always accept the label
Moynihan
Many black families are headed by lone mothers so children struggle with vare as they are struggling financially
Statistics - DfES
only 24% of white boys on free school meals got 5 A* - C grades at GCSE
- therefore lower income students are less liekly to do well academically
