Examining ethnic differences in achievement 1. The definition of an ethnic group is a group of people of the same race or nationality that share the same cultural norms and values. 2. Three ways in which the education system may encourage separation between children of different ethnic backgrounds are: Labelling and teacher racism‚ many teachers label their students and studies by interactionist sociologists found out that many teachers labelled black children as disruptive and they didn’t
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explanations for ethnic differences in educational achievement. 20 marks. Ethnicity refers to shared cultural practices‚ perspectives‚ and distinctions that set apart one group of people from another. That is‚ ethnicity is a shared cultural heritage. The most common characteristics distinguishing various ethnic groups are ancestry‚ a sense of history‚ language and religion. Modern Britain is said to be a multicultural society made up of many different ethnic groups. Achievement within education
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Asses the claim that “ethnic differences in educational achievement are primarily the result of school factors” Most studies found that overall ethnic minorities tend to do less well than other members of the population when it comes to educational achievement. Many factors which occur inside the school are the cause of educational achievement however other factors contribute. The expectations of teachers on ethnic minorities have caused differences in educational achievement. Bernard Coard believes
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Assess the importance of school factors such as racism and pupils’ response to racism in creating ethnic differences in educational achievement. Racism is a system of beliefs that defines people as superior or inferior‚ and justifies their unequal treatment‚ on the basis of biological differences such as skin colour. Individual racism refers to the prejudiced views and discriminatory behaviour of individuals. Institutional racism exists when the routine ways an organisation operates have racist
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This modification‚ created by the 2015 NASW National Committee on Racial and Ethnic Differences‚ expands on the past work to present new ideas and develop others. These guidelines strengthen the idea of "culture" as being comprehensive past race and ethnicity; comprehensive of‚ yet not restricted to‚ sexual introduction‚ sex personality or expression‚ and religious personality or otherworldly existence. So also‚ they strengthen the target group for these guidelines to be the wide range of social
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RAISING ACHIEVEMENT OF ETHNIC MINORITY PUPILS ABSTRACT This literature review would explore the barriers in raising educational achievements of ethnic minority students. As this is a broad area of concern the literature would examine two main barriers such as social background issues and English as Additional Language (EAL) while briefly looking at other barriers such as… Statistical data collected from the Pupil Level Annual School Census (PLASC) 2002 would be analysed in respect to this group
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Using material from Item B and elsewhere‚ assess sociological explanations of ethnic differences both in offending and in victimisation. (21 marks) In terms of offending‚ official statistics tends to over represent ethnic differences in offending and victimisation. However‚ self-report studies carried out by Graham and Bowling found that black and whites have very similar rates of offending‚ while Indians‚ Pakistanis and Bangladeshis had much lower rates. In terms of victimisation‚ black people are
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Assess the view that ethnic differences in educational achievement are primarily the result of external factors. It has been found that someone’s ethnicity can have an effect on their educational achievement‚ as in 2006 73% of pupils of Indian origin gained 5 A*– C passes at GCSE compared with 56% of white and 47% of black pupils. It has been found that African students tend to underachieving in the educational system compared to others‚ with them being below average reading ability and tend to
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THAT ETHNIC DIFFERENCES SHOULD Similar to the idea of religion as a manifestation of exile in various stanzas within ‘The TV’‚ Crichton Smith’s poem ‘That Ethnic Differences Should’ highlights the poets personal feelings about religion as a whole and the extremity at which those go to in order to stay faithful to their God. Crichton Smith talks about his belief that God is the enemy‚ in which He promotes and encourages the most extensive variation of exile where people distance themselves from other
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