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Ethnic differences in achievement - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Lack of intellectual and linguistic skills is a major cause of underachievement for many minority children
      - Bereiter and Engelmann argue that the language spoken by low income black American families is inadequate for educational success
      - :red_cross: Gillborn and Youdell point to teacher's racialised expectations as being more significant than language
        :red_cross: Gillborn and Mirza note that Asian students do very well despite not having English as their first language
    - - Cultural deprivation theorists see a lack of motivation as a major cause of the failure of many black children
      - Some black children are socialised into a subculture that instils a fatalistic 'live for today' attitude which doesn't value education
      - The chief executive of a Bradford charity put part of the blame for their underachievement in school on the amount of time they spent at the mosque studying the Qur'an
    - - Failure to socialise children adequately is the result of a dysfunctional family structure
        Moynihan claims many black families are headed by lone mothers, the father's absence means that boys lack an adequate role model. Sees cultural deprivation as a cycle where inadequately socialised children from unstable families go on to fail at school
      - New Right say a similar thing, Murray argues that a high rate of lone parenthood and a lack of positive male role models lead to the underachievement in some minorities
    - - The tightly knit Asian family structure might be responsible for higher levels of achievement
        Ballard and Driver claims that Asian families encourage their children and also are prepared to give support to gain further qualifications
      - Reasons for underachievement in white working class
        
        Mc Culloch found that there is low levels of aspiration and achievement amongst white working class pupils and it may be the lack of parental support
        
        Evans Argues that street culture in white working class areas can be brutal and so young people have to learn how to withstand intimidation