Can you tweet (144 characters including #) a summary of class and achievement?

Alternatively, can you doodle a diagram which shows the key ideas?

This topic looks at ethnicity and achievement. A reminder that ethnicity refers to shared cultural traditions and history.

There are a number of ethnic groups in Britain - ethnicity can have an influence on your sense of identity; the type of family you experience; your experiences of a range of social institutions.

It's important as you build your knowledge of achievement within different groupings that you consider the intersection of these groups.

Higher levels of achievement:
- Chinese students highest @ GCSE
- Indian (including Bangladeshi) students perform above national average
- female black and male Asian students have some of highest rates of entering HE

Lower levels of achievement:
- fewer black students achieve 5 A*-C grades @ GCSE than any other major ethnic group
- Roma, white & Bangladeshi students least likely to enter HE

External factors can influence achievement both positively and negatively:

Cultural deprivation; ethnocentric curriculum
Linguistic deprivation; language barrier; labelling theory

Family structure: extended families; expectations; divorce; single-parents; female strong role models

Material deprivation:
Pakistani; Bangladeshi & Afro-Caribbean - more likely to be lower-class jobs
Chinese; African Asian & Indian groups more likely to be higher class jobs

Gillborn (1990) = labelling, Afro-Caribbean boys more likely to be excluded

Ethnocentric curriculum = Europe centred; white & middle-class culture

Schools focused on holidays, assemblies and history which reinforces white middle-class culture

Institutional racism =

Response to situation:
Right answer, wrong form
Retreatism - anti-school subcultures

Role models - majority of teachers are...?

Access to school: experience of parent

CGP: 26-27
Harlambos & Holborn: 57-59
Collins Yr1: 31-4