1. What are the effects of ethnicity on educational attainment?
Does your cultural background impact on your attainment in education?

2. Sociological Targets
You will understand that ethnicity is a variable affecting educational attainment.
Some minority ethnic groups achieve significantly better than the average group.
Other ethnic groups appear to be disadvantaged by education systems in UK

3. Personal targets To understand the importance of official statistics.
To interpret official statistics
To work with others in class

4. Discuss the meaning of……
Ethnicity
Hidden Curriculum
Racism
Prejudice
Discrimination
Ethnocentric
Institutional racism
Material deprivation
Cultural deprivation

5. Defining ethnicity
Ethnicity - belonging to a group that shares the same characteristics, such as country of origin, language, religion, ancestry and culture.
Ethnicity may be defined by biology and history and is not necessarily changed by the culture in which a person grows up.

6. Amir Khan, British boxer
What is his ethnicity? Discuss this point with your study partner.

7. There is a clear statistical link between ethnicity and educational attainment

8. Attainment of 5 GCSEs A-C

9. Questions
Which groups do better than the average white British ethnic group?
Which groups do worse than the average white British ethnic group?
At least 80% of students are white British. How might this affect the patterns?

10. If you apply Halsey’s notion of Equality of Outcome, what should these figures look like?
Ethnicity
%18-24 in higher education
%18-24 in Great Britain
White
85.2 92
Indian
4.7 2
Pakistani
2.7
1.8
Bangladeshi
0.7
Chinese
1.0
0.4
Asian Other
1.2
Africans
1.4
0.6
Caribbeans
0.9
Black Other
0.5

11. Government data
The rate of permanent exclusions of black pupils (pupils reported to be in the Black Caribbean, Black African and Black Other ethnic groups) in all secondary schools is 1.1 per cent compared to 0.3 per cent for all other pupils.
Department for Children, Schools and Families

12. Explanations for the patterns
Different ethnic groups have different levels of intelligence (Jenson, James Watson)
Ethnic minorities experience racism in school and society (DFeS)
Ethnic minorities have a different culture that advantages or disadvantages them (Sewell)

13. AO3 practice
Try to think of at least one possible argument that supports and one argument that rejects each of the suggested explanations for the under attainment of minority ethnic groups in British schools.
Which explanation do you find most satisfactory? What evidence can you offer?

14. Steve Strand - research
Most ethnic minority groups have
higher parental and pupil educational aspirations,
more positive attitudes to school,
do more homework
but do not get the same rewards as White British pupils for this extra effort.

15. Important Research Study
Modood (2004)
Investigated success of some ethnic minority groups
Used Official statistics from Dfes.
Found some ethnic minorities do well because of ‘cultural capital’ in previous countries families were well to do and influential.
Evaluation ??
How does this compare to what Sewell found?

16. Plenary Outline and explain patterns of attainment by ethnicity (15).
Summarise the patterns of educational attainment and ethnicity you have learned today.
Point (example)
Evidence shows that some ethnic minority children are treated differently because of institutional racism in schools

17. Independent study Plan out an essay on:
Outline and explain the relationship between ethnicity and educational attainment.
What AO1/2 points would you make?
What AO3 points would you make?

18. If you have suggestions for improvement, see your teacher
The end
If you have suggestions for improvement, see your teacher