How does an individual’s ethnicity have an impact on their educational attainment?
In-school factors Out of school factors
Labelling – Material deprivation –
Gilbourn & Youdell: Lower expectations, Platt: EM higher chance of poverty
lower sets = 38% BAME written off, 25% Modood: Even though EM are poor, they
white written off will use capital to use education to escape
Mirza: ‘Anti school’, Pro-education poverty
Mac an Ghaill: Some conform to the school
even if they view it as racist/some try to Parental aspirations –
conflict (rude to teachers/ignoring them) Archer & Francis: Chinese parents have
higher aspirations
Strand: Less aspiration for WC white & black
boys
Institutional racism – Cultural factors –
Gilbourn: ‘Schools are inherently racist’ Dustman: EM seen as ‘lesser’, therefore EM
seen as less intelligent
Sewell: Lack of male role model, media
glorifying crime & racism leads to deviance
In-school factors Out of school factors
Labelling – Material deprivation –
Gilbourn & Youdell: Lower expectations, Platt: EM higher chance of poverty
lower sets = 38% BAME written off, 25% Modood: Even though EM are poor, they
white written off will use capital to use education to escape
Mirza: ‘Anti school’, Pro-education poverty
Mac an Ghaill: Some conform to the school
even if they view it as racist/some try to Parental aspirations –
conflict (rude to teachers/ignoring them) Archer & Francis: Chinese parents have
higher aspirations
Strand: Less aspiration for WC white & black
boys
Institutional racism – Cultural factors –
Gilbourn: ‘Schools are inherently racist’ Dustman: EM seen as ‘lesser’, therefore EM
seen as less intelligent
Sewell: Lack of male role model, media
glorifying crime & racism leads to deviance
