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Education - Ethnicity and Educational Achievement - External Factors…
Education - Ethnicity and Educational Achievement - External Factors
Linguistic skills:
Bereister and Engelmann
: Spoken language from low-income black families as inadequate for educational success as it is often ungrammatical and disjointed. This leaves them poorly equipped for school because they have not been able to develop reasoning and problem-solving skills.
AO3: Gillborn + Mirza
- Indian pupils do very well despite often not having English as their home language.
Pyrce:
-Studied
Caribbean families
in Bristol, described family life as
turbulent
where family structure is less stable.
Argued that a large amount of lone parent families/working women left their children unsupervised -
lack of skills
Black vs Asian -
blacks less resistant to racism
,
lacked support
, leads to low self-esteem and underachievement.
Asian
children were higher achievers because their culture was
more resistant to racism
and gave them a greater sense of self-worth.
Material deprivation:
Almost half of all ethnic minority children
live in low income households against a quarter of white children
Ethnic minority groups are
more likely to be engaged with shift work/
at a greater risk of the material deprivation that results from unemployment, low pay and overcrowding
Working shifts affect children's education as
parents can't accommodate being at home for support with homework.
Teachers can't contact parents, barriers in communication.
Poor housing:
overcrowding - leads to distraction, high noise levels. Shift work- children have to look after siblings.
Sewell:
Lack of fatherly nurturing and tough love leads to black people underachieving.
Street gangs offer perverse loyalty and love, which presents the boys with an
anti-school masculinity.
Saw white underachievement as the result of
low levels of parental support.
Found that teachers reported poorer levels of behaviour and discipline in the white working-class schools. Blamed on
lower levels of parental support and negative attitudes.
Asians:
adult authority is similar to the model that operates in schools - see education as a way up in society
Lupton: