ethnocentric curriculum

Cards (6)

  • values white british culture, devalues minority culture - leads to low self esteem and bullying
  • troyna and williams
    curriculum is specifically british and focuses on white culture, ignoring non european culture
  • ✔️ bull - little englandism used to describe the curriculum
    • focuses on white culture
    • tries to recreate ’a mythical of empire and past glories whilst ignoring other culture’ history’
  • ✔️ coard
    black culture and history taught to be primitive and how white culture civilised such groups
  • ✔️stone - tokenism ‘saris, samosas and steel drums’
    making a symbolic effort to be inclusive
  • X overgeneralisation - diversity in the curriculum