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Ethnicity - Labelling & teacher racism - Coggle Diagram
Ethnicity - Labelling & teacher racism
interactionists focus on different labels teachers give children from different ethnic backgrounds
Black pupils & discipline
Gillborn & Youdell
found teachers quicker to discipline black pupils than others for same behaviour
result of teachers radicalised expectations
teachers expected black pupils to present more discipline problems + misinterpreted behaviour as threatening or a challenge to authority
pupils responded negatively when teachers acted on misperceptions resulting in further conflict
black pupils felt teachers underestimated + picked on them
concluded much of conflict between white teachers + black pupils stems from racial stereotypes teachers hold
Jenny Bourne
schools tend to see black boys as a threat + label them negatively, leading eventually to exclusion
Olser
in addition to higher rates of official exclusions, black pupils appear more likely to suffer from unrecorded, unofficial exclusions + internal exclusions (being sent out of class)
Black pupils & streaming
Gillborn & Youdell
educational triage
A to C economy
negative stereotypes about black pupils ability means they're more likely to be placed in lower sets/streams
:( argue policy of publishing league tables creates 'A-C economy' which leads to disproportionate numbers of black pupils being placed in lower sets instead of individual prejudices
Peter Foster
found teachers stereotypes of black pupils as badly behaved could result in them being placed in lower sets than other pupils of similar ability
streaming black pupils on basis of negative stereotypes about their ability or behaviour can result in self fulfilling prophecy of underachievement
EVALUATION
:( danger of seeing stereotypes as product of individual teachers prejudices rather than racism in way education system as a whole operates
:( deterministic in assuming pupils accept labelling and will inevitable fail if labelled
:( many of the studies are outdated and nowadays there's less evidence of teachers negatively labelling ethnic minority pupils
teachers often see black + Asian pupils as far from 'ideal pupil'
negative labels may lead to teachers treating ethnic minority pupils differently which disadvantages them
Asian pupils
Wright
study of multi-ethnic primary school
Asian pupils victims of teacher labelling
teachers held ethnocentric views by taking for granted that British culture + Standard English were superior
affected how they related to Asian pupils
teachers assumed they would have poor grasp of English + left them out of class discussions or used simplistic language
Asian pupils felt isolated when teachers expressed disapproval of their customs or mispronounced their names
seen as a problem that could be ignored
marginalised
PREVENT policy & labelling
there's some evidence that teachers have labelled the behaviour of Muslim children as indicating they're being radicalised into extremist views
PREVENT doesn't specify that Muslim children should be targeted but it's Muslims who make up the majority of referral under PREVENT