Ethnicity -external

• Language skills-

  • many children form low income black families lack intellectual stimulation which leaves them poorly equipped for school
  • Engleman -suggested language spoken by black families is inadequate for educational success ad they see it as disjointed and ungrammatical
  • in some Asian household english is not the first language which is seen as a barrier to success

  evaluation

  • Gilbourn and Mirza point out that the high attainment of Indian pupils suggest that having English as an additional language isn’t a barrier
• family differences -

  • It is argued that black children are socialised into a subculture that instils a live for a day attitude and does not value education and leaves them unequipped for success
• class and material deprivation-

  • Palmer- ethnic minorities are more likely to experience material depriavtion
  • twice as likely to be unemployed in comparison to white
  • three times more likely to be homeless
  • more likely to be engaged in shift work
  • They live in economically depressed with high unemployment and overcrowding

  evaluation

  • however ,those of ethnic minority on FSM still achieve higher than white students on FSM
• racism in wider society -

  • Mason highlights that discrimination is continuing and persistent feature in Britain’s society
  • wood -completed a study and used three closely matched job applications ,they came from white applicants and ethnic minority group
  • 1 in 16 ethnic minority applicants were offered an interview in comparison to 1 in 9 white