Different expectations of students of different races / backgrounds
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Black students - discipline problems, misinterpreted behaviour as
threatening and challenging authority
Asian students - problems they can ignore, poor grasp of English,
so spoke in a childish way, students felt ashamed when teachers
mispronounced names or expressed disapproval of customs
Gilborn and Youdell (AO1) Teacher labelling
Found that teachers were quicker to discipline black students
than others for the same behaviours
This was as a result of racialised expectations
Teachers expected black students to present more discipline
problems
When teachers acted on this misinterpretation, pupils responded
negatively, creating conflict between teacher and student
Study of black A level students at a sixth form college
Students who believed that teachers gave them a negative label,
rejected this label
Evaluation: Mac an Ghaill (AO3)
Goes against racialised expectations affecting education
Girls from all girls schools had greater academic commitment and
were able to overcome their negative label
Et
Discrimination that is built into the way institutions, such as
schools and colleges operate
Can also lead to pupils being treated unfairly because of
their race
Applicable to education today
Ethnic minorities are more likely to be excluded Analysis (AO3)
Putting ethnic minorities in lower sets
They tend to be labelled negatively in school
Internal - Ethnicity
Found that teachers often had ethnocentric views (Asian
students)
Found that Asian students especially girls, were marginalised
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Black students - discipline problems, misinterpreted behaviour as
threatening and challenging authority
Asian students - problems they can ignore, poor grasp of English,
so spoke in a childish way, students felt ashamed when teachers
mispronounced names or expressed disapproval of customs
Gilborn and Youdell (AO1) Teacher labelling
Found that teachers were quicker to discipline black students
than others for the same behaviours
This was as a result of racialised expectations
Teachers expected black students to present more discipline
problems
When teachers acted on this misinterpretation, pupils responded
negatively, creating conflict between teacher and student
Study of black A level students at a sixth form college
Students who believed that teachers gave them a negative label,
rejected this label
Evaluation: Mac an Ghaill (AO3)
Goes against racialised expectations affecting education
Girls from all girls schools had greater academic commitment and
were able to overcome their negative label
Et
Discrimination that is built into the way institutions, such as
schools and colleges operate
Can also lead to pupils being treated unfairly because of
their race
Applicable to education today
Ethnic minorities are more likely to be excluded Analysis (AO3)
Putting ethnic minorities in lower sets
They tend to be labelled negatively in school
Internal - Ethnicity
Found that teachers often had ethnocentric views (Asian
students)
Found that Asian students especially girls, were marginalised
