Cards (17)

  • Bereiter and Engelmann suggest that students who are taught English as a second language will be poorly equipped for school
  • Chinese and Indian students tend to perform well academically
  • Black students are socialized into a fatalistic attitude and do not value education
  • What is an evaluation of Attitudes and values?

    This is more of a class issue rather than an ethnicity issue
  • Sewell's research indicates that the lack of a father figure or 'tough love' can lead to behavioral difficulties for boys
  • Asian families have a strong work ethic and place a higher value on education
  • Khan
    Asian families may have high expectations which can have a negative impact
  • Ethnic minorities, according to Palmer, are twice as likely to be unemployed compared to whites
  • Gillborn and Youdell found that teachers are quicker to discipline black students
  • Foster
    Teacher stereotypes based on behavioral expectations
  • Wright
    White teachers hold ethnocentric views
  • Mac an Ghaill's study shows that Asian students did not accept negative labels
  • Who talks about and ethnocentric curriculum?
    Troyna and Williams
    • only European languages in schools
    • Negative view on ethnic minorities in history
    • Literature: books taught are written by white authors
  • What does pathologised mean?

    asian deserving poor, achieve through hard work not intelligence
  • what does Demonised mean?
    working class, culturally deprived 
  • what is an ideal pupil?
    white, middle class 
  • who talks about, Pathologised, Demonised, Ideal pupil?

    Sewell