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Ethnicity & Differencial Attainment, EVALUATION, EVALUATION, EVALUTION…
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EVALUATION
- Chinese students still perform highly despite being working class suggesting that influence of parenting is more important than material wealth.
Genders within ethnic groups also influences performance
...example black girls have higher educational achievement then black boys
1.GILBORN & MIRZA - class doesn’t override the influence of ethnicity
...example middle class black children still do poorly at GCSE
EVALUATION
- DRIVER - Black Caribbean families are functional and do provide positive role models of strong independent women which is why black girls are more successful in the education system
- EVANS - white working class families underperform due to lack of family support - more single parent families would lead to more underachievement
EVALUTION
- Criticism of Lipton’s study - Pakistani families encourage parental respect which has not heightened this ethnic groups position in achievement tables due to still underperforming relative to other ethnic groups
- KEDDIE - cultural deprivation is a victim-blaming explanation. Ethnic minorities are culturally differnt not deprived and underachieve because schools are ethnocentric ( favour white people ). Solution is to provide multicultural education
EVALUTION
- Equality opportunity policies in work and social life has been passed aswel as in the education system
- Victims are racism actively change this and work harder to break through society’s barriers