The impact of Ethnicity on education: school factors

Sociology

A level

AQA

6m 40s
This podcast explores the processes within the school that lead to different educational outcomes among ethnic groups. This also includes a discussion of the ways that the school is organised and how this may affect ethnic groups in different ways.

1. Listen to the podcast, taking notes.

2. What is an ethnocentric curriculum?

3. Give examples of ways that the school is organised which reinforce particular forms of ethnocentrism

4. Identify the key thinkers and their concepts for this podcast

5. In your view, are home factors or school factors more significant in explaining differences in educational outcomes in relation to ethnicity?

 

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