institutional racism

Subdecks (6)

Cards (28)

  • individual racism
    -prejudicial treatment of members of ethnic group
    -where discrimination based on prejudiced views of individuals
  • institutional racism

    -where discrimination against ethnic group is built into way institutions operate
  • Troyna & Williams
    -racism goes beyond individual teachers
    -institutional racism : discrimination built into way schools & colleges operate
  • Hatcher
    -schools governing bodies fail to deal with racism / address needs to ethnic minority pupils
    -found little communication between schools & parents
  • KEY THEORY : critical race theory - Gillborn
    -sees racism as ingrained feature of society
    -institutional racism example of 'locked-in inequality'
    -Gillborn sees ethnic equality as "so deep-rooted & so large that it's practically inevitable feature of education system"
  • critical race theorists
    how education institutionally racist:
    > marketisation & segregation
    > ethnocentric curriculum
    > assessment
    > access to opportunities
    > the 'new IQism'