Internal factors and ethnic differences in achievement (1)
Labelling, identities and responses-sociologist list
Key:
Heheh-Sociologist Heheh-Important information
Statistics on Ethnicity and how internal factors influence educational
achievement
● Gillborn and Mirza(2000)
- Primary school entry for black children→highest achievers on entry to
primary school(20 percentage points above the local average)→in one local
education authority
- GCSE results for black children→worst results of any ethnic group(21
points below the average)
● Strand(2010)
- Analysis of 530,000 7-11-year-olds
- Black students who were not entitled to free school meals made significantly
less progress than their white counterparts
● More information on statistics and internal factors
- Studies above show that there must be internal issues in the system if black
children start as the highest achievers and end up as the lowest achievers
through education
- Material and cultural deprivation in the home should not be the only reasons
why certain ethnic minorities fall behind in the education system
1. Labelling and Teacher racism
● Information on labelling and teacher racism
- ‘Labelling someone’→attaches a meaning or definition to them
- Associates with interactionist sociologists and how teacher labelling affects
ethnic minority pupils
- Interactionist sociologist studies→teachers see black and Asian pupils as
being lower than the standard of the ‘ideal pupil’
- Black student's labels→aggressive, mischievous and troublesome
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Labelling, identities and responses-sociologist list
Key:
Heheh-Sociologist Heheh-Important information
Statistics on Ethnicity and how internal factors influence educational
achievement
● Gillborn and Mirza(2000)
- Primary school entry for black children→highest achievers on entry to
primary school(20 percentage points above the local average)→in one local
education authority
- GCSE results for black children→worst results of any ethnic group(21
points below the average)
● Strand(2010)
- Analysis of 530,000 7-11-year-olds
- Black students who were not entitled to free school meals made significantly
less progress than their white counterparts
● More information on statistics and internal factors
- Studies above show that there must be internal issues in the system if black
children start as the highest achievers and end up as the lowest achievers
through education
- Material and cultural deprivation in the home should not be the only reasons
why certain ethnic minorities fall behind in the education system
1. Labelling and Teacher racism
● Information on labelling and teacher racism
- ‘Labelling someone’→attaches a meaning or definition to them
- Associates with interactionist sociologists and how teacher labelling affects
ethnic minority pupils
- Interactionist sociologist studies→teachers see black and Asian pupils as
being lower than the standard of the ‘ideal pupil’
- Black student's labels→aggressive, mischievous and troublesome
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