ethnicity- INternal factors

gilborn

structural, interactionalist 

black caribbeans labelled as lazy- SFP, teachers discipline them quicker- 4x more likely to be excluded

+ Jasper: white female teachers- black boys difficult to deal with

+ foster: negative labels- low sets 

+ Wright: teachers leave out asians from discussions as they lack standard English 

• Fuller: black caribbean girls self-negate 

• Mac an ghail: black boys don’t accept negative label

mirza

cultural, interactionalist

Teachers racist to black students- form anti-school subcultures- underachieve 

+ Sewell (new right): black boys cope with racism by exerting machismo

• Mirza: black girls were pro-education

• Mac an ghail: victims of racism didn’t have a negative attitude to school

gilborn (school)

structural, social democrats

Schools institutionally racist- unlikely to accept black boys as they underachieve, but indian/Chinese get good grades

• value added: pick students with lowest grades to show progress within that school 

coard 

structural, no particular theory

ethnic minorities excluded from curriculum- ethnocentric

+ Hatcher: Teachers give low priority to dealing with racism 

• Chinese/Indian students outperform whites while experiencing this curriculum

• effort to make it more exclusive