Ethnicity and achievement

• What did Gillborn propose?


  There was a myth of the black challenge
• What is the myth of black challenge?


  Teachers negatively label black pupils as a challenge to authority which increases their chances of being excluded
• What does the labelling theory suggest about positive teacher labels and ethnicity?


  Teachers have higher expectations for Asian pupils and they receive positive teacher labels
• How might the national curriculum be seen as ethnocentric?


  It is based on mainstream white and western ideology
• What does Wright suggest?


  Asian girls receive less attention from teachers and felt as if their cultural traditions such as Hijab were displaced
• What did Driver and Ballard suggest?


  Asian pupils whose first language wasn't English were was good as their white counterparts by 16
• What do labelling theorists argue about language?


  Accents and dialect may influence teacher expectations and they may lean to negative labels for the pulps
• What do Archer and Francis argue about parental value?


  Chinese parents are likely to place a higher value on education and creates a desire for achievement
• What does the SWANN report show?


  Shows that socio-economic status is a factor of lower achievement levels between African-Caribbean pupils
• What ethnicity's are most likely to be in lower class positions?

  Pakistani, Bangladeshi and African-Caribbean pupils
• What ethnicity's are most likely to be in higher class positions?

  Chinese, African-Asian and Indian pupils