ethnic minority students

Cards (5)

  • impact on marketisation
    African Caribbean boys are shilt shifted from schools they are viewed as a risk to league tables. historically higher preforming minorities, Asian, Chinese and Indian students are targets for cream skimming
  • consequences for educational experience
    alienation due to ethnocentric curriculum, other cultures are undervalued and under represented. they don't feel a belonging which can lead to a development of anti- school subcultures. they may end up in more unpopular/ substandard schools.
  • evidence
    Gibbons- marketisation and segregation, OFSTEAD reports
  • Gibbons
    highlights how EAL students are not viewed as higher achievers or not viewed as having potential to do so
  • OFSTEAD reports
    they are not given in other languages - leads to alienation of parents to their children's education