Ethnicity and Education – The Role of Cultural Factors
Cultural factors include parental attitudes, peer-group pressure, language barriers and student aspirations.
education, Ethnicity
education
education, Ethnicity
Material Deprivation and Differences in Educational Achievement by Ethnicity
Poor Asian and Black-African children do better that poor white children, but poor Pakistani and Black-Caribbean students do worse.
Culture and Identity, education, Sex and gender
Gender Identity and Education
This post looks at how the experience of school can reinforce children’s gender identities. Research on the development of gender
education, Social Policies
New Labour and Education Policy
There are three main strands to New Labour’s Education Policies – Raising standards – which essentially meant building on what
education, Marxism
The Marxist Perspective on Education
According to Traditional Marxists, school teaches children to passively obey authority and it reproduces and legitimates class inequality.
education, Functionalism
The Functionalist Perspective on Education
Functionalists focus on the positive functions of education – creating social solidarity, teaching core values and work skills and role allocation/ meritocracy
education, Social class, wealth and income inequalities
The effect of cultural deprivation on education
cultural deprivation refers to the inferior values of the working class, including immediate gratification and fatalism.
education, Social class, wealth and income inequalities
The Effects of Material Deprivation on Education
material deprivation means poor kids are more likely go hungry and get sick from living in cold houses which harms their education.
education, Marxism, Social class, wealth and income inequalities
The reproduction of class inequality in education
This video explores the role of social and cultural in the process of the reproduction of class inequality. This video