ethnicity

• lawson and garrad


  ethnic group definition

  people who share common history, customs and identity as well as language and religion
• bereiter and englemann


  Language spoken by low income black American families is inadequate for educational success
• moynihan


  Many black families are headed by a lone mother so boys lack an adequate role model.
• sewell 1


  absence of tough love makes boys more vulnerable to peer pressure
• sewell 2


  generating genius

  
  

  25 bb from failing schools into science

  3 got into cambridge

  3 weeks of summer working with uni scientists
• palmer


  ethnic minorities are more likely to face material deprivation
• wood et al


  1 in 16 ethnic minority applications received interviews against 1 in 9 white
• noon


  sent identical letters of enquiry about job to top 100 uk companies from evan and patel - more encouraging to white
• jane elliot


  brown eye blue eye study
• gillborn and youdell


  teachers discipline black children quicker than others for same behaviour

  teachers hold racialised expectations
• gillborn and youdell 2


  A-C economy, black pupils placed lower sets as result of negative stereotypes, lead to underachievement
• foster


  supports gillborn and youdell

  placing black pupils in low sets creates self fulfilling prophecy of underachievement
• fuller


  year 11 black girls, high achievers

  don't seek approval of teachers, friends with bg from low streams

  
  

  negative label not always lead to failure
• sewell 3


  boys responses

  rebels- visible, small, reject goals and rules of school, conform to stereotype of anti-school and authority

  conformists- largest, keen to succeed, accept goals and rules, anxious to avoid stereotypes

  retreatists- tiny, disconnected from sch and black subcultures

  innovators- second largest, pro education but anti school
• moore and davenport


  selection leads to an ethically stratified education system
• david


  national curriculum is specifically british, largely ignores non-european lang, literature and music
• ball


  crits national curriculum for ignoring ethnic diversity and promoting an attitude of little englandism
• gillborn 4


  image of indian and chinese as model minorities perform ideological function

  system appears fair

  ignored MM still suffer racism in school