Topic 3- Ethnic Differences in Achievement

Question 1

what are 3 external factors that affect ethnic differences in achievement?

Answer 1

• cultural deprivation
• material deprivation
• racism in wider society

Question 2

what do cultural deprivation theorists say about intellectual and linguistic skills?

Answer 2

• lack of skills cause underachievement
• many children from low income black families lack intellectual stimulation

Question 3

what official statistic show that children who don’t speak english at home are not held back academically?

Answer 3

• in 2010 pupils with english as their first language were only 3.2 points head of those without english as a first language when it came to gaining 5 GCSEs A*-C

Question 4

what did moynihan’s 1965 study reveal about black families?

Answer 4

• many black families are headed by a lone mother
• children are deprived of adequate care as she struggles financially
• father’s absence means boys lack a role model of male achievement

Question 5

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Question 6

what does Sewell 2009 say about absent fathers

Answer 6

• the absence of fathers means they lack ‘tough love’
• black boys therefore find it hard to overcome emotional and behavioural differences of adolescence

Question 7

what does Lupton 2004 say about asian families?

Answer 7

• families have an ‘asian work ethic’ so have high value on education
• adult authority is similar in asian families as is in schools so they were more likely to support behaviour policies

Question 8

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Question 9

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Question 10

what was wood’s 2010 study on employment and ethnic minorities

Answer 10

• sent 2 closely matched job descriptions to 1000 vacancies
• came from fake applicants with names associated to theit ethnic group
• for each job one was white and one an ethnic minority
• 1 in 16 ethnic minority applicants were offeredan interview compared to 1 in 9 white applicants

Question 11

what are the 4 internal factors of ethnic differences in achievement?

Answer 11

• labelling and teacher racism
• pupil identities
• pupil responses and subcultures
• institutional racism

Question 12

what did gillbourn and youdell find about black pupils in their 2000 study?

Answer 12

• teachers were quicker to discipline black pupils
• due to their racialised expectations
• black pupils felt teachers underestimated them

Question 13

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Question 14

what did Wright’s 1992 study reveal about asian pupils?

Answer 14

• teachers held ethnocentric views
• teachers assumed asian pupils has a bad grasp to english so excluded them
• they felt isolated when they disaproved of their customs and pronounced their name wrong

Question 15

what are the 3 stereotypical ethnic pupil identities archer 2008 found?

Answer 15

• ideal pupil identity- white middle class masculine identity, heterosexual
• pathologised pupil identity- an asian, feminised identity, asexual or oppressed sexuality
• demonised pupil identity- black or white working class