Ethnic Differences in Achievement
- Created by: ellarachel
- Created on: 16-11-17 14:51
View mindmap
- What is an Ethnic Group?
- - Ethnicity refers to a shared culture, identity and history. An ethnic group is a group of people who see themselves as a distinct group based for example on religion, geography or language -An ethnic minority group may be of a different skin colour from the majority population, but not necessarily so. However, in the case of Britain, the largest minority groups are non-white: African, Caribbean or South Asian origin - Deciding who is in which ethnic group is a problem. Should all 'Asians' be classified together when this covers many different nationalities, religions and languages?
- Explaining differences in achievement: there are two sets of factors - internal factors within schools and the education system and external factors e.g. home and family background
- Ethnic differences in achievement: patterns of ethnic achievement are complex, cross-cut by gender and social class. For example: - Black and Pakistani pupils do worst; Chinese and Indians do best. White pupils are very close to the national average, but this is because they form the great majority of the school population.
Comments
No comments have yet been made