1. Ethnic Differences and Achievements in Education
Another school factor (or internal factor) that may be important in creating ethnic differences in achievement would be the ethnocentric curriculum promoted by most schools in the country. An ethnocentric curriculum is when the school emphasizes the values of only their own culture therefore emphasis is put on white-western music, literature, language, history, religion, etc An ethnocentric curriculum does not value black, Asian or any other cultures except their own and therefore a pupil of a different ethnicity will not have the same knowledge and understanding of white-British culture as m...
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