Ethnicity and Education

Functionalist tend to see ethnic minorities as being p (a)   to fail in school

Functionalist thinkers point towards which two factors to explain ethnic minority failure in schools?

• Genetic

• Peer Group

• The Media

• Cultural

Marxist thinkers are less concerned by ethnicity and are more interested in differences in

• Class

• Age

• Intelligence

• Motivation levels

Factors that effect the progress of ethnic minorities in education can be broken down into two main categories. Internal factors and external factors.

• True

• False

Three areas that interactionists tend to look to for an explanation of differences in achievement for ethnic minorities are:

• Labelling

• The patriarchy

• Teacher Racism

• Institutional Racism

The New Right tend to look at which other institution in order to explain educational failure of some ethnic minorities especially West Indian boys?

(a)  

Which modern family type in particular do new right thinkers tend to be particularly critical of?

(a)  

According to new right thinkers what do boys particularly miss out on in single parents families? R (a)  

What are the three main criteria/elements that contribute towards cultural deprivation in ethnic minority families?

An example of an internal factor for ethnic attainment differences would be family background?

• True

• False