ethnocentric curriculum

• ethnocentric curriculum

  -gives priority to / reflects culture & viewpoint of particular ethnic group

  -usually dominant one
• language


  -more European languages than others
• literature & music


  -largely ignores non-European
• history

  -largely ignores history of black & asian people

  -may portray British colonisation as the British 'bringing civilisation' to 'primitive people'
• Coard


  -portrayals of black people / culture as inferior lowers self-esteem

  -leads to failure
• AO3 against Coard

  -Asian culture largely ignored

  -yet Indian & Chinese pupils achievement is above average