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Ethnic differences in achievment 2
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- 1External factors and ethnic differencesCultural deprevation, material deprevation and class and racism in wider society.
- 2Cultural deprevation-Intelectual and language skills
-Attitudes, values and family structure
-White working-class pupils
-Compensatory education - 3Attitudes, values and family structure-Fatalism and immediate gratification
-The lack of a male role model (Murray)
-Culture of poverty (Moynihan)
-The impact of slavery(Pryce)
-Asian families(Sewell)
-Fathers, gangs and culture(Sewell) - 4Compensatory educationOperation Head start- in the USA was established to compensate children fort he cultural defict they said to suffer becuase of deprived backgrounds.
Sure Start- in the UK aims to support the development of pre-school children in deprived areas. - 5Material Deprivation and Class-Half of ethnic minority children live in low-income households.
-Ethnic minorities are almost twice as likely to be unemployed.
-Minorities face discrimination in the housing and labour markets, - 6Racism in wider society-Racial discrimination in jobs and housing
-Social exclusion
-Unemployment, low pay, inadequate housing
-Affects children's education - 7Labelling: Black and Asian pupilsBlack Pupils
- Gillbourn and Mizra found that in one area, black children were the highest achievers in primary school however when it came to GCSE's they dropped 21 points below average.
-Radicalised expectations
Asian Pupils
Wright found that Asian primary school pupils were stereotyped by their teachers and treated differently.
-Teacher mis pronouncing their names.
-Using simplistic language thinking they would'nt be good at English - 8Pupil subcultures CIRR-Conformists: Keen to succeed
-Innovators: Pro-eduaction but anti school
-Retreatists: minority of isolated individuals disconnected from school and black subcultures
-Rebels: Black pupils who did'nt like school and hated white boys and conformist black boys. There aim to gain 'street hood'. - 9Rejecting negative labelsFuller: High group of high-achieving black girls in year 11
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