Topic 3

• 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