Effective schooling for ethnic minorities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3658729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Tomlinson (Lancaster University Ghana, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 337-347 |
| Publication date | 1990-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.1990.9976188 |
| OpenAlex | W2037793179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
Educational credentials will become increasingly crucial in the urban technological societies of the 1990s, not least for ethnic minorities. Ethnic minority families have been widely perceived as contributing to the reputed under‐achievement of their children, while they themselves have questioned the inability of schools to provide their children with an effective education. This article describes a study carried out in 20 multi‐racial secondary schools between 1981 and 1986. The study suggests that ethnic minority parents were right to focus on schools as the major determinant of their pupils’ achievement level. It was found that some schools are more effective in helping their pupils to progress academically than others and the academic level which is expected of a child depends much more on school policies than on the qualities of the pupils
Academic achievement · Ethnic group · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2018 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |