labelling & teacher racism

• interactionist theory & Becker

  -focuses on labels teachers give pupils

  -Becker argues pupils judged against idea of 'ideal pupil'
• Gillborn - Black students 


  -labelled as disruptive

  -teachers quick to discipline

  -'racialised expectations' lead to cycle of conflict
• Wright - Asian students 


  -teachers assume they have poor grasp of English

  -they don't see them as threat > problem that can be ignored

  -result in feeling marginalised (not being represented)